On Jun 6, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Pat McBride wrote:
Why
in the world the colonists got so choked over a Tea Tax is beyond
me; after
all,
It wasn't about the tax; it was about being half the size of Europe
and still treated as a pocket borough. (For the first year of the war,
the US flag had a Union Jack for a canton; we really didn't want to
break away, but Lord North kept offering us our last demand but one.)
The C of E wasn't much better. All of British America counted, for
ecclesiastical purposes, as a neighborhood in the City. Maybe that
made sense in the nonconformist colonies, but in the crown colonies,
it made American Anglicans feel as though they were nonconformists, too.
--
John W Kennedy
"The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything...."
-- Emile Cammaerts, "The Laughing Prophet"
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