HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Quartering Acts, Town Meeting, Quebec Act
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Port of boston act shut down port until tea paid. General court to be appointed by crown instead of being elected. Only one town meeting per year judges appointed and removed by royal decree without consent of general court. Magistrates and military officers accused of crime to be tried in england. Quartering act re-enacted act of 1764 at discretion of officer, soldiers can be housed in unoccupied homes and private properties. French people live in quebec and are roman catholic. He is writing to other middling sort people. People in america read and we are trying to go from being english citizens to. No one is worthy of being born into royalty. Monarchy takes away other peoples" opportunities to be king. In england the king hath ore to do than to make war and give away places the people should be the government revolution of independence and equality going on around this time in america, the law is king.
