Why did they claim that the Sugar Act was unjust and unconstitutional?( Hint: what mercantile rights are stressed in the Boston merchants' appeals against the Sugar Act? ) What rights do the colonists say they have as English subjects?
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Sugar Act, also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act, (1764), in U.S. colonial history, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian ...
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