Author : Thomas Jefferson
Release : 1774
Genre : United States
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A Summary View of the Rights of British America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Summary View of the Rights of British America write by Thomas Jefferson. This book was released on 1774. A Summary View of the Rights of British America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This pamphlet is Thomas Jefferson's personal copy of A Summary View of the Rights of British America, which he originally drafted in July 1774 as a set of instructions for the Virginia delegates to the first Continental Congress. Jefferson argued that the British Parliament had no rights to govern the colonies, which he claimed had been independent since their founding. He also described the usurpations of power and deviations from law committed by King George III and Parliament. Jefferson was not present in the Virginia House when his draft instructions were debated and the House adopted a more moderate position than the one he articulated, but his friends had his instructions published in pamphlet form. The pamphlet was circulated in London, as well as in Philadelphia and New York, and helped to establish Jefferson's reputation as a skillful, if radical, political writer.