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CONTENTS TO VOLUME I.
BOOK I.
THE NEW NATION.
CHAPTER I.
THE AWAKENING OF A NATION.
The Problem in America....
The King's Commission....
Attempt at the Exercise of Arbitrary Powers by James II..
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3
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Popular Government Outside of Massachusetts..
The Threefold Political Estate....
Concept of Legislative Authority..
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The Conditions of American Life Fixed Its Political Thought.. 24
Elements of Discord.......
25
Franklin's "Modest Inquiry Into the Nature of Paper Money".. 26
Labor and Wealth....
27
THE ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH MILITARY GOVERNMENT
IN AMERICA.
The Religious Enfranchisement of the Anglo-Saxon Race..... 42
Democracy vs. Absolutism...
Ultimate Cause of the Revolution.
Individualism ...
The Town-Meeting
Franklin's "Junto"
The Sons of Liberty.
Unpopular Laws
American Rights Asserted...
The Call for a Congress..
The Stamp Act Unconstitutional...
The Congress Assembles.....
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Its Character
54
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Its Work
55
The Epoch-Making Doctrine of Natural Rights.
The Resolutions of Congress..
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57
Public Grievances
Parliament Repeals the Obnoxious Acts..
A Second Congress Proposed......
The Coming of British Troops to Boston...
The Political Convention...
Calmness of the Americans..
The Affair of the Gaspee.
Virginia Founds the Union..
The Hutchinson Letters..
Franklin's Position
Conciliation Impossible
Obnoxious Laws ...
The Sympathies of America.
Paine's "Common Sense".
An Embargo Agreed On..
The Revolt Spreads..
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