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A Summary View of the Rights of British America

A Summary View of the Rights of British America was a tract written by Thomas Jefferson in 1774, before the U.S. Declaration of Independence, in which he laid out for delegates to the First Continental Congress, a set of grievances against the King, especially against his (and Parliament's) response to the Boston Tea Party. Jefferson, in this work, held that allodial title, not feudal title, was held to American lands; thus the people did not owe fees and rents for that land to the British crown.

Origins of the American Revolution: writings

American resolves, declarations, petitions, essays and pamphlets prior to the Declaration of Independence (July 1776)

Following the
Stamp Act (1765)

Virginia Resolves (May 1765) • Braintree Instructions (September 1765) • Declaration of Rights and Grievances (October 1765) • An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (1766)

Following the
Townshend Acts (1767)

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767) • Massachusetts Circular Letter (February 1768) • Boston Pamphlet (1772) • Sheffield Declaration (January 1773)

Following the
Coercive Acts (1774)

Maryland	Chestertown Resolves (May 1774) • Bush River Resolution (March 1775)

Massachusetts	Suffolk Resolves (September 1774)

New York	Orangetown Resolutions (July 1774)

North Carolina	Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) • Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) • Tryon Resolves (August 1775) • Halifax Resolves (April 1776)

Virginia	Fairfax Resolves (July 1774) • Hanover Resolves (July 1774) • Fincastle Resolutions (January 1775) • Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776)

1st Continental Congress	Declaration and Resolves (October 1774) • Continental Association (October 1774) • Petition to the King (October 1774)

2nd Continental Congress	Olive Branch Petition (July 1775) • Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 1775) • Lee Resolution (July 1776)

Essays and pamphlets

A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774) • Novanglus (1775) • Common Sense (1776) • Thoughts on Government (1776)

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