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...dissolve any government that has become tyrannical. In great measure, this idea draws upon the examples of Great Britain's own revolutions of 1642 and 1688 ?winch included the execution and exiling of kings?and beyond that, upon a vast background of sometimes bloody tradition in winch Englishmen asserted their rights against the authority of their rulers...
...himself. They attacked the Townshend Revenue Act, the so-called "Intolerable Acts" and other impositions as being the unconstitutional measures of a misguided Parliament, but not as the illegitimate usurpations of a ruler. In fact, the Colonists before 1764 enjoyed a freedom from parliamentary control that was denied to Englishmen at home. The English, for example, have long paid stamp taxes, against winch the Americans rioted. In claiming extraordinary privileges, however, the Americans argued they were not properly represented in Parliament, and therefore Parliament had no right of control...
They could next drive south to Newport, R.I., a Victorian throwback, once the exclusive playground of the American aristocracy. The Vanderbilt mansions are overwhelmingly beautiful; the lobster is superb. A resident proudly informs them that here "the tomato was first introduced into America." Later Twain explains to the Englishmen what a tomato...
London was able to shut out Harvard much of the game while picking up its ten-point lead. In the first half, the Englishmen overloaded the right side and a wing went in for the tri untouched...
Blanket-covered squaws on the sidelines cheered their teams on. Suddenly the players dropped their lacrosse sticks, reached beneath the squaws's blankets, and emerged with tomahawks. Only three of the surprised Englishmen survived...