events resulted in Colonial opposition to Great Britain. The
conditions of rights of the colonists will slowly be changed
as the constriction of the parliament becomes more and more
intolerable. During the Seven Years' War England was not
only alarmed by the colonists' insistence on trading with
the enemy, but also with Boston merchants hiring James Otis
inorder to protest the legality of the writs of assistance
(general search warrants) used to hunt out smuggled goods.
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conformity, by resisting certain policies detrimental to
the inalienable rights of a democracy. The transitional
period was from 1760's to 1770's. This is a crucial period
of time, because this is where the center of power is
transferred from the british government (Parliament) to the
colonial citizens. A major component to this center of power
was the rights of the colonists, the colonists gained their
rights through resistence to an imperial power. This
transition is depicted through the progression of time in
the documents.
