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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Chapters: 1774 in Canada, 1774 in Denmark, 1774 in England, 1774 in Great Britain, 1774 in India, 1774 in Ireland, 1774 in Norway, 1774 in Russia, 1774 in Scotland, 1774 in international relations, 1774 in the Thirteen Colonies, Quebec Act, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Schiehallion experiment, Dunmore's War, Fairfax Resolves, Letters to the inhabitants of Canada, Suffolk Resolves, 1774 English cricket season, Powder Alarm, First Continental Congress, Intolerable Acts, Continental Association, Chestertown Tea Party, Donaldson v Beckett, Pugachev's Rebellion, List of state leaders in 1774, Battle of Kazan, On American Taxation, Madhouses Act 1774, Quartering Acts, Fort William and Mary, Campbell v Hall, Life Assurance Act 1774, 5th General Assembly of Nova Scotia, Edenton Tea Party, Boston Port Act, Orangetown Resolutions, Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Rohilla War, Massachusetts Government Act, Greenwich Tea Party, Booksellers' Bill, Administration of Justice Act 1774, British general election, 1774, Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, Galloway's Plan of Union, 1774 in Wales, Petition to the King, List of colonial governors in 1774. Excerpt: A Summary View of the Rights of British America was a tract written by Thomas Jefferson in 1774, before the U.S. Declaration of Independence, in which he laid out justifications for the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution. Jefferson, in this work, held that allodial title, not feudal title, was held to American lands; thus the people did not owe fees and rents for that land to the British crown. Text A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA by Thomas Jefferson Resolved, that it be an instruction to the said deputies, when assembled in general congress with the deputies from the other states of British America, to propose to the said congress that an humble and dutiful address be presented to his majesty, begging leave to lay before him, as chief magistrate of the British empire, the united complaints of his majesty's subjects in America; complaints which are excited by many unwarrantable encroachments and usurpations, attempted to be made by the legislature of one part of the empire, upon those rights which God and the laws have given equally and independently to all. To represent to his majesty that these his states have often individually made humble application to his imperial throne to obtain, through its intervention, some redress of their injured rights, to none of which was ever even an answer condescended; humbly to hope that this their joint address, penned in the language of truth, and divested of those expressions of servility which would persuade his majesty that we are asking favours, and not rights, shall obtain from his majesty a more respectful acceptance. And this his majesty will think we have reason to expect when he reflects that he is no more than the chief officer of the people, appointed by the laws, and circumscribed with definite powers, to assist in working the great machine of government, erected for their use, and consequently subject to their superintendance. And in order that these our rights, as well as the invasions of