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    [I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering into society to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights, when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are life, liberty, and property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up an essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right of freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.


    — Samuel Adams

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    Finding itself deep in debt and looking for new sources of revenue the British Parliament sought for the first time to directly tax the colonies of British America. A graduate of Harvard College he was an unsuccessful businessman and tax collector before concentrating on politics. (1678–1737) the leader of the "popular party" a faction that resisted any encroachment by royal officials on the colonial rights embodied in the Massachusetts Charter of 1691.

    Adams returned to Massachusetts after the American Revolution where he served in the state senate and was eventually elected governor. Samuel Adams (September 27 [O. Continued resistance to British policy resulted in the 1773 Boston Tea Party and the coming of the American Revolution.

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