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Beers with our Founding Fathers

fourteen specific acts preventing colonial trade with

England].
 Declaration of Rights (First Continental Congress) October

14th 1774 – was a resolution passed asserting:
o Since the end of the French and Indian War, England

unjustly imposed taxes without representation for the
purpose of raising revenue to pay for the war;

o Imposed unconstitutional powers over the colonies,
including the right to trial and proper venue;

o The unjust passing, for punishment and without
representation, The Intolerable Acts;

o Notice of the convening of the convention, and
enumerating several resolutions that were unanimously

passed. Allegiance to England was still desired, but not
yet independence, “…in General Congress, in the city of

Philadelphia, in order to obtain such establishment, as
that their religion, laws, and liberties may not be

subverted…”. These resolutions included the right to
life, liberty and property (these were not even

guaranteed in England, however, determined by

colonists to be inalienable rights), not ceding any rights
to a sovereign power (otherwise known as inalienable
rights, not granted or denied by any government),

taxation and enactment of laws can only be by

representation – and agreeing that England had the
right to enact such taxation and laws so long as the
colonies were equally represented in parliament, right

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