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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
