This statement was saying that Britain was just in taxing the Americans. ... Dickinson's comments were everywhere among the colonists, and thus infuriated them to rebellion, and the seizure of basic democratic rights. ... The King is openly cursed everything is ripe for rebellion. ... This statement from Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," published in January 1776, shows the foreshadowing, of what colonists would do. ... Again, the rights of the colonists are being questioned and rebellion will shortly be approaching. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a statement by the colonist John Dickinson, he shows that the sole reason for taxes was just for the British government to make money, at the expense of the colonists. ... From this, committees were established to promote opposition to Britain, seeing it as the beginnings of a rebellion against England. ...

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