Pub Date : 2018-10-15DOI: 10.7591/CORNELL/9781501726071.003.0002
P. Hoffer, W. Hoffer
George Grenville’s program of “reform” was first and foremost a legal one—a thorough review of colonial law, the enforcement of old laws and the passage of new laws adapted from older models. It was thus natural and proper for revolutionary lawyers in the making to take the lead in protesting these laws, at least insofar as they seemed a break with precedent as well as sound policy. It was natural and proper as well for lawyers attached to the crown interest to defend Grenville’s policies, for surely Parliament, which Grenville led, was a legitimate source of new legislation. Thus the lawyers on both sides of the issue joined combat in the court of public opinion.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-15DOI: 10.7591/CORNELL/9781501726071.003.0003
P. Hoffer, W. Hoffer
At whose door the onus for reigniting the crisis in 1767 belongs is and will remain an open question for historians. But it cannot be laid at the threshold of the revolutionary lawyers’ offices. Their conduct in the controversy thus far was wholly responsible and measured. Dulany wrote with judicial restraint. Otis, Dickinson, Bland, and Fitch were respectful. Only Hopkins blustered. All were careful not to defame their opponents in the colonies or the home country (not least because such defamation might lead to prosecution for seditious libel). In the main, they acknowledged their contributions to the debate by signing their essays. Reconciliation should have followed, could have followed, had not leaders across the water insisted on renewing Grenville’s legalist program.
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