and Bill of Rights. The thirteen British colonies of mainland North America moved toward independence slowly. The colonists were proud of being British and had no desire to be separated from their mother country with which they were united, as John Dickinson put it in his popular newspaper "by religion, liberty, laws, affections, relation, language and commerce." Not even the outbreak of war at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts on 19 April 1775 produced calls for independence. The king…
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