“Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.” ShouldTogetherTheoryCrownsSovereignParliamentActuality Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.” KindCertainEffortPrinciplesTaxesParliamentObjections Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.” MeanPowerfulCasesSubjectsKingsAuthorityMost PowerfulParliamentPresentationCokePrecedent Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
