| The "Boston Pamphlet"
by Boston Committee of Correspondence (09/01/1772)
Alarmed by Britain’s decision to remove the colonial assembly’s right to pay the governor’s and judges’ salaries -- thus removing any power it might wield over royal officials -- a group of Boston citizens led by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and Joseph Warren formed a citizens’ committee to oppose the action. The committee compiled a three-part document soon known as the “Boston Pamphlet” and distributed it throughout the colony. The document (1) asserted the colonists’ rights as men under natural law, as Christians under God’s law in the New Testament, and as British subjects under the British constitution; (2) listed twelve violations of those rights by Britain; and (3) invited response from other Massachusetts towns. Soon over one hundred new town “committees of correspondence” had been formed in Massachusetts. |  |
|
| |
 | Brian (2) |
| |
| J. Dianne Brinson and Mark F. Radcliffe (1) |
| |
| Ellen H. Brown (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Major General Smedley Butler (1) |
| |
| Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (1) |
| |
| Patrick S. J. Carmack (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Jonathan Chevreau (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Marquis Circle (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Continental Congress (2) |
| |
|
| |
| Roy Davies (1) |
| |
| © Roy Davies & Glyn Davies, 1999 (1) |
| |
| Alexis de Tocqueville (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Duke University (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Zoe Eisenberg (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Steve Elliott (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Louis Even (1) |
| |
| Securities and Exchange Commission (1) |
| |
| Farm Journal (1) |
| |
|
| |
| National Center for Constitutional Studies (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Albert Friedberg (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Georgetown University Advanced Vehicle Development (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Skip Goebel (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Viktor S. Grebennikov (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Max Greenwood (2) |
| |
|
| |
| G. Edward Griffin (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Emil Guillermo (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Paul Harvey (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Patrick Henry (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Ron Holland (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Publius Huldah (1) |
| |
| European Contact Inc. (1) |
| |
| Christopher Ingraham (1) |
| |
| IRS -Criminal Investigation Division (1) |
| |
| IRS (2) |
| |
|
| |
| Tom Jennings (1) |
| |
| Fully Informed Jury Association (1) |
| |
| Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Bill Keller (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Devvy Kidd (1) |
| |
|
| |
| Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1) |
| |