HST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 60: Jonathan Sewell, Townshend Acts, Intolerable Acts
Document Summary
A series of essays written by the pennsylvania lawyer and legislator john dickinson (1732-1808) and published under the name "a farmer" from 1767 to 1768. The twelve letters were widely read and reprinted throughout the thirteen colonies and were important in uniting the colonists against the townshend acts. The success of his letters earned dickinson considerable fame. While acknowledging the power of parliament in matters concerning the whole. British empire, dickinson argued that the colonies were sovereign in their internal affairs. He thus argued that taxes laid upon the colonies by parliament for the purpose of raising revenue, rather than regulating trade, were unconstitutional. Board of customs commissioners the commissioners of customs act of 1767 established the american board of. Customs commissioners, which was modeled on the british board of customs. American customs board was created because of the difficulties the british board faced in enforcing trade regulations in the distant colonies.
