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On this day in 1690 (or 1691), the Massachusetts Bay Colony printed £40,000 in paper money , an act that was technically banned by the English crown. This was the first time paper money became widespread in the West, but after conflicts such as King William's War and the French and Indian War , the cash rapidly depreciated by almost 40 percent within a year. Regardless, other American colonies began printing money too. In 1776, in the day’s General Orders , Washington em

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On this day in 1690 (or 1691), the Massachusetts Bay Colony printed £40,000 in paper money , an act that was technically banned by the English crown. This was the first time paper money became widespread in the West, but after conflicts such as King William's War and the French and Indian War , the cash rapidly depreciated by almost 40 percent within a year. Regardless, other American colonies began printing money too. In 1776, in the day’s General Orders , Washington em

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"But the most minute provisions become important, when they tend to obviate the necessity or the pretext for the gradual and unobserved usurpations of power. " James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 42

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"...but the cool and candida people will at once relect, tht th epurest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them; that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not PERFECT good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness, involves a discretion of which may be misapplied and abused." James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 41

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1925 - Noem, Alaska Sled Dogs In 1571, all eight members of a Jesuit mission in Virginia were murdered by Indians who pretended to be their friends. In 1653, New Amsterdam, later New York City, was incorporated. In 1776, across the lines in Boston, General William Howe writes Washington, refusing the General’s request for James Lovell’s release. Howe writes that he has discovered James Lovell carrying on a “prohibited Correspondence” and therefore revokes the liberty he h

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"They must have reflected, that in all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance; that a rigid adherence in such cases to the former, would render nominal and nugatory, the transcendent and precious right of the people to "abolish or alter their governments as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness;"* since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert toward their object: an

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In 1750, Jonathan Mayhew, a Unitarian-leaning minister of Boston’s West Church, preached a sermon entitled “Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers.” In 1776, from Cambridge, Washington writes to Major General William Howe under explicit orders from Congress proposing a formal prisoner exchange. He offers Philip Skene, a royal governor, in return for prominent Boston patriot James Lovell, imprisoned by the British. In 1779. At Fort Henderson, Georgi

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