No Longer Subjects of the British King (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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No Longer Subjects of the British King offers a fresh perspective on how colonial Americans transformed from royal subjects to republican citizens. When Parliament learned of Boston radicals' destruction of the Royal East India Company's tea, it passed the Coercive Acts, a collection of punitive measures designed to rein in that insubordinate seaport town. To the astonishment of the crown, colonial Whigs from Massachusetts to Georgia responded by drafting resistance resolutions critical of Parliament's dangerous encroachment upon American liberty. They also did something else; they directed colonists to refrain from purchasing British merchandise, exporting American resources, and partaking in perceived corruptive pastimes. These grassroots directives essentially asked committed Whigs to voluntarily sacrifice material and social comfort so long as Boston suffered. In the process, those sacrificing for the common cause severed their bonds of allegiance to the British king and separated from the broader imperial community. Those colonists who attended to this separation formed an American political community, completing the political transformation from subject to citizen.