About the preamble of the declaration of independence. He views each line and explores what the Founding Fathers may have intended by their word choices. Good afternoon, everybody. So for the last six weeks in this class weve been examining the political thought of the imperial crisis. That is weve been looking at the debates between British Imperial officials and american wig patriots and that debate has in many ways come down to one issue which is broadly speaking, what is the british constitution and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies. And more specifically even, the real question is what is the political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the British Parliament and americas colonial legislatures. And over the course of about 12 years, between 1764 and 1776, the Britain Parliament passed a series of laws. In 1764 it began with the sugar act and then a year later the stamp act and then in 176768, the townsend act a