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Benjamin Franklin: “Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One”

( 1773 ) Commentary by Kirk H. Beetz, UC Davis, Emeritus
  • “They will probably complain to your parliaments, that they are taxed by a body in which they have no representative, and that this is contrary to common right. They will petition for redress. Let the Parliaments flout their claims, reject their petitions, refuse even to suffer the reading of them, and treat the petitioners with the utmost contempt.” - “Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One,”
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