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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olive Branch Petition|in July, 1775, following outbreak of conflict at Bunker Hill, John Dickinson, author of "Letters from a Farmer", opposed to further conflict war with Britain, persuaded the Continental Congress to send a letter to George III that affirmed American loyalty and desire to avoid war and that they just wanted more equitable laws; the petition was deeply opposed but passed under Dickinson's persuasion; the King refused to receive it, having already issued the Proclamation of Rebellion (naming certain colonies as in state of rebellion); Congress soon after the Olive Branch issued the "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms" written by Jefferson and Dickinson (see entry)}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olive Branch Petition|in July, 1775, following outbreak of conflict at Bunker Hill, John Dickinson, author of "Letters from a Farmer", opposed to further conflict war with Britain, persuaded the Continental Congress to send a letter to George III that affirmed American loyalty and desire to avoid war and that they just wanted more equitable laws; the petition was deeply opposed but passed under Dickinson's persuasion; the King refused to receive it, having already issued the Proclamation of Rebellion (naming certain colonies as in state of rebellion); Congress soon after the Olive Branch issued the "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms" written by Jefferson and Dickinson (see entry)}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Patriot|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Patriot|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Popular Sovereignty|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Popular Sovereignty|the political theory that the people have the right to choose and rule their government; the principle was more commonly called "republican form of government," which means government through representatives selected by the people; the Declaration asserted the principle of popular sovereignty}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Revolutionary flags|flags symbolically represent a place or people; the colonial flags highlighted their protest and their growing identity as an independent nation of unified colonies; here for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flags_of_the_American_Revolution |Flags of the American Revolution}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Revolutionary flags|flags symbolically represent a place or people; the colonial flags highlighted their protest and their growing identity as an independent nation of unified colonies; here for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flags_of_the_American_Revolution |Flags of the American Revolution}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:social contract theory|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:social contract theory|}}</ul></li> | ||