MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tea Act, Sugar Act, John Locke

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

Colonial appeal for return to former economic privileges i) Directly protect the fur trade against the french interest in the north. Victory assured britain and its american colonies much greater control over global trade ii) Shift in british mercantile policy due to financial crisis (1) (2) Britain"s staggering war debts had led to financial insolvency. Series of special taxes to raise revenue (a) All printed matter had to be used with london issued paper (c) Tax on all of the tea from asia. Adams"s justification of colonial defiance based on lockean social contract theory (1) No property (i. e. taxes) can be taken away without consent nd (1) No property (i. e. taxes) can be taken away without consent (a) (b) Primary role of government is to protect its citizens. Taxes can only be as much as necessity allows. Rallying call of no taxation without representation (1)