He was forbidden to print the paper. Benjamin
supported him by publishing extracts from other papers, such as
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom;
and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech…
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by
subduing the freeness of speech; a thing terrible to public
traitors."
By statute of 1766, the New York house of representatives was
prohibited from meeting or voting until they provisioned the
King's troops as required by law.
In 1769, Harvard College seated its students in class in
alphabetical order instead of by social rank according to birth.
By 1769, the colonies' boycott of British goods in protest of the
new duties cause these imports to decline so much that British
merchants protested. So the duties were dropped, except for that
on tea, which was retained as a matter of principle to assert the
power of the crown to tax the colonies. Then in 1773 the East
India Company was allowed to sell tea directly to the colonies to
help it avoid bankruptcy. The effect of this was to lower the cost
of tea in the colonies because the English middleman, and the
American middleman, but also to give the East India Company a
monopoly. The colonies felt threatened by this power of Britain to
give monopolies to traders. When the tea ships arrived in Boston
in late 1773, Bostonians held a town meeting and decided not to
let the tea be landed.
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