Massachusetts Ratifying Convention.
January 25, 1788
Amos Singletary rose at the Massachusetts Convention to say that he was troubled; the Convention was considering a Constitution that was no better than the state was under British rule in 1775. It would lead to the federal government laying “taxes, duties, imposts, and excises” on the people just as the British did. When the British did so, Singletary said, the colonies “claimed a right to tax us and bind us in all cases whatever” and thus the Revolution became necessary and warranted.
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