
1764–1787
The Rights of the Colonists
Samuel Adams led Boston radicals, opposing royal control of officials’ salaries, using committees of correspondence to defend Lockean rights colonists’.

Samuel Adams led Boston radicals, opposing royal control of officials’ salaries, using committees of correspondence to defend Lockean rights colonists’.

My Dear Sir,-A few days ago a small expedition was made by the authority of this State aided by detachment of Continental Regulars, to suppress the Tories in the Counties

[A] Adams’ Untitled Boston Gazette Article February 27, 1769 In the days of the STUARTS, it was look’d upon by some men as a high degree of prophaness, for any

In SENATE Whereas the Convention lately assembled at Philadelphia, have reported to Congress a Constitution for the United States of America, in which Convention were represented, the State of New—