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Henry Clay in the Senate In 1774, the special investigative commission reports to the English Privy Council that the Massachusetts petition calling for the dismissal of Governor Hutchinson and provincial secretary Andrew Oliver is based on false charges. In 1775, Benjamin Franklin published "An Imaginary Speech" in defense of American courage. At the time, Franklin was residing in London. In 1776, at Cambridge, Washington issued General Orders to steady his army. Guards an

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Henry Clay in the Senate In 1774, the special investigative commission reports to the English Privy Council that the Massachusetts petition calling for the dismissal of Governor Hutchinson and provincial secretary Andrew Oliver is based on false charges. In 1775, Benjamin Franklin published "An Imaginary Speech" in defense of American courage. At the time, Franklin was residing in London. In 1776, at Cambridge, Washington issued General Orders to steady his army. Guards an

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"The federal and state governments are in fact but different agents and trustees of the people, instituted with different powers, and designated for different purposes. The adversaries of the constitution seem to have lost site of the people altogether in their reasonings on this subject; and to have viewed these different establishments, not only as mutual rivals and enemies, but as uncontrolled by any common superior, in their efforts to usurp the authorities of each other

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"The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state government, are numerous and indefinite." James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 45

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Golfing on the moon In 1776, Major General Charles Lee writes Washington from New York while seriously ill, having been carried part of the journey in a litter. He reports that British General Henry Clinton arrived in the city almost simultaneously, claiming he has come only to visit former royal governor William Tryon and had brought no troops. In 1778, the treaties of Amity and Commerce and Alliance were signed, and in May 1778, the Continental Congress ratified them.

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"The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and with indignation, that sudden changes, and legislative interferences in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators; and snares to the more industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain

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Roger Williams In 1631, Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, arrived in Boston. In 1644, Connecticut passed the first US livestock branding law. In 1673, New York Governor Francis Lovelace set up a monthly horseback post between New York and Boston. This was the beginning of a regular mail service and communication between the colonies, which would become critical information lines throughout the Revolution 100 years later. In 1736, British Methodist religious leaders

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