Founding fathers and what they may have intended by their word choices. Good afternoon, everybody. So, for the last six weeks in this class, we have been examining the political thought of the imperrial crisis. That is, we have been looking at the debates between British Imperial officials and american waeched patriots. And that debate has in many ways come down to one issue,y 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 British 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 1767 68 the townsend act and the tea act and the coercive acts and in 1775, the prohibitor
About the declaration of indent. He talks about it line by line and he explores what they may have intended by their word choices. Good afternoon, everybody. So for the last six weeks in this class, we have been examining the political thought of the imperial crisis. We have been looking at the debates between officials and american wig patriots and it has come down to one issue which is broadly speaking, what is the constitution and how does it be fine prelations. What is the political and constitutional relationship between the parliament and the port, and over the cover aurt about 12 years, the british par employment passed a series of laws. In 1764 is started with the sugar act and then the stamp act. And then in 1775 the prohib tire act. But standing behind all of these acts of british legislation was one over arching piece of legislation that i think was the driving force behind all of these acts. And that meant that par employmeparliment was supreme and the pour and authority wa
Nothing that must be. Right . The fact of the matter is that in 1776 at least a third of all american colonials at that time were self identified loyalists. And the third hadnt made up their mind. So how is it that the americans argue that it is now necessary. So the question is why necessary. So why not say when in the course of human events, it is optional to dissolve our political bans. Why necessary . Im going to come back to that at the end of the time. I think it tells us something deeply important about the logic of those who signed the declaration of independence. Let me break down what are the philosophic ideas, the enlightenment, that are contained in that first paragraph. So the declaration has a meta physics that it draws on. Summed up in one word, which is nature. And we see that when we talk about the laws of nature and natures god. So in the 17th and 18th centuries, natural well call it at the time, natural philosophers, what we would today call natural scientists, they
Patriots. That debate has really 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. 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 legislators. Between 1774 and 1776 the British Parliament passed a series of laws. In 1774 it was the sugar act. Then a year later the stamp act. In 1767 the townsend act. Then the tea act. Then in 1775 the prohibiting act. Standing behind all these acts was one overarching piece of legislation which i think was the driving force behind all of these particular acts. That was the declaratory act of 1766, which claimed that parliaments authority extended to the american colonies in all cases whatsoever. That meant that parliament was not only supreme over the colonies, but its power and authority was absolutely supreme.
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