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Excerpt from University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. 10: March, 1922 In 1765 the Stamp Act Congress professed to be sincerely de voted, with the warmest sentiments Of afl'ection and duty to his Majesty's person and government, and inviolably attached to the present happy establishment of the Protestant succession.1 In the closing paragraph of the Resolutions of the Congress George III is called the best Of sovereigns,2 and four days later, in a Similar document, the members declared, We glory in being the subjects of the best Of kings.3 Assertions Of this sort, Often re peated in the immediately succeeding years, ill accord with the famous indictment of the King in the Declaration of Independ ence.4 The contrast is more or less evident in almost any bistori cal treatment of the ten years prior to the Revolutionary War. The development of this hostility to King George and its ex tension to the very institution Of kingship demands attention at the outset of our investigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.