The Boston statement of rights and grievances, drafted by the Boston Committee of Correspondence in 1772, differed from previous patriot pamphlets in that it
A. did not mention the necessity of obedience to Parliament.
B. did not profess allegiance to the king.
C. attempted to define the precise limits of parliamentary authority.
D. claimed that colonial assemblies had the right to judge the constitutionality of acts of Parliament.
Answer: A
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a. raising taxes on the migrants to pay for new lands and start up money. b. spreading Chinese culture and civilization further than ever before. c. displacing all the Mongol peoples who were forcibly removed from their traditional lands. d. cleaning out the jails because only convicts were sent out to the new colonies.
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A) jihad B) shari'a C) education D) the Arabic language E) tariqas
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A) An argument based upon reasoning from basic propositions assumed in advance to be true B) An argument based upon the belief that universals do not exist C) An argument based upon the belief that universals do exist D) An argument based upon the theory that truth is always attainable E) An argument based upon the theory that truth is never actually obtainable
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