HIST-0028 Lecture Notes - Quartering Acts
Document Summary
No more king: britons in america make a revolution. We will never never never be slaves. What gives the system we"re in today legitimacy. Americans voting for the american government, gives citizens a sense of self determination. People give sovereignty as opposed to given by divine rightect. Parliament= king is inparliament althoughseparate, both work to restrain each other. People= when people are upset they complain to the sovereign rather than theparliament. Placemen- men who find a job/place for themselves in gov ect. King punishes people because he is sovereign. This system can work- but falls apart in murica. However in the 1760s the backwash from the seven years war destroys it in the colonies. The british must rule the colonies which means making them pay debts. 1763- british empire issues aproclamationtelling colonies no more settlement past the appalachians proclamationof 1763. Taxes on molasses, sugar, ect are new and therefore upsetting to colonials.
