Woodie holton says the american patriots had a legitimate beef with the british government about taxation without representation. But he argues the revolution would not have happened if not for these other british moves that infur ted the colonists. He says what drove the elite revolutionaries was a desire to gain freedom from british meddling and the ability of the colonies to govern themselves. The rest got cut out because some signers objected to jefferson's florid denunciation of slavery, a practice they intended to continue.

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