Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 11, page 254 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.:
...57, Benjamin Franklin was chosen agent to represent in England the unhappy situation of the province, that all occasion of dispute hereafter might be removed by an act of the British legislature.
Massachusetts had already given the example of an appeal to the House of Commons in favor of popular power against prerogative; and its complaint had, in 1733, been rebuked as a high insult, tending to shake off t...
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| † | Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) | 30,598 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
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