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meet in Philadelphia in September

1774 to give voice to their struggles

against the British. This meeting was

the first Continental Congress that

went to go against the British crown

and demand independence, they

denounced the phrase no taxation

without representation, as well as

the maintenance of the British army

in the Americas without the consent

and issued a declaration of the rights

due every citizen including the right

to life, liberty, property assembly

and the rights to a trial by jury. The