John Dickinson anonymously publishes “An Address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados,” asserting rights are a gift from God, not a grant from government.
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Magna Carta, Chapter 13
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References:
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1967), ???
[John Dickinson], “An Address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados,” (Philadelphia, 1766), Writings of John Dickinson, Paul L. Ford, ed., (Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, XIV, Philadelphia, 1895; New York: DaCapo Press, 1970), 246, 249, 261-62.
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