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17th century England could have never known that its territorial expansion would be the downfall of its global dominance. Each land charter that was granted in the New World was, in a sense, a ticket for rebellion. The urge for separation began to grow among the ....

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.... and created the Stamp Act Congress, which was one of the first feats of defiance towards England. The colonies had begun to see themselves as a separate entity. The opposition to these acts led to England passing even more laws, but this time they were in order to control, rather than tax, the colonists. The first of these decrees was the Declaratory Act in 1766. This law stated that England had the right to pass any laws they wanted and the colonists would have to obey them. In order to test this mandate, Maritime courts and the Writs of Assistance were used. These institutions were restricting the civil liberties of the settlers and the peopl ....