...a friend that the insubordinate declarations against Parliamentary right were going to be examined, "but first it is thought proper to establish that...instance, an internal Tax, that of the Stamp duty." 37 On February 6, when Grenville reminded the 35 Benjamin Franklin discussed the possibility of such...

...state, told a friend, was one reason that the government decided it must "establish that Right . . . and in the strongest instance, an internal Tax, that of the Stamp Duty." Jared Ingersoll, in London on private business, was asked by the Connecticut Assembly to assist its...