The Rights of the Colonists

» Brian Tubbs - I am curious...

What have you all thought about these last few articles on the origins of the American Revolution? Am I going into too much detail? Do you agree/disagree with the analysis? What are your thoughts on James Otis? Do you agree with his interpretation of British common law and the points he expresses in The Rights of the British Colonists Asserted and Proved? Do you have any requests / suggestions for further articles in the context of analyzing the origins of the Revolution?

I look forward to your input.

-Brian Tubbs
Contributing Editor
American Revolution & Founding Era

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» Marella - IMO

There can NEVER be too much detail in historical articles!

-- posted by Marella

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» DollChique - Opinion

I like your attention to detail. I also like the way you bring up *all* sides of a question when dealing w/ your analysis. And, you don't go off on needless tangents.

So, in my opinion, keep doing what you're doing, and I'll keep reading!

: )

Mechele R. Dillard
Contributing Editor, Race Relations in the U.S.

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» Prometheus - Where are the pro-British counter-arguments?

It would be interesting to read the legal opinions
of the pro-British on these documents. Somebody
must have written refutations of them.

Those of us who are relatively ignorant of history
of law have little more to go on than whether we
like the arguments and conclusions. But that
doesn't make them legally correct. (For example,
it's easy to find people on all sides of the 2nd
Amendment, but few know the history of the decisions
and how those precedents control legal interpretation.)

Many of us are wont to agree with arguments on our
side no matter how wrong they are. I'd be curious
to know whether these arguments were really well
supported or if they were just popular propaganda.

-- posted by Prometheus

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» Brian Tubbs - Good suggestion, Mike

My first article on the origins of the war - titled "No Taxation Without Representation" - touched briefly on the British point of view of the war as well as that of modern American critics of the colonists. I do plan, in the next month or so, to return to a few of these themes and go a bit deeper. I've tried to keep some of those themes in front of the readers of my subsequent articles, and I hope I've been fair even though I have been developing in-depth the colonial positions mainly.

My next article will be on the Stamp Act Crisis, and will introduce Patrick Henry. It will also, however, go into a little more detail on how some of the British governors in North America felt about the issue.

-Brian Tubbs
Contributing Editor
American Revolution & Founding Era

-- posted by Brian Tubbs

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