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The chief reasons for the failure of the opposition to the American policy of North’s administration lay in the near unanimity of political support for parliamentary sovereignty, which has been detailed sufficiently in the preceding chapters, the divisions within the parliamentary opposition, the weakness of extra-parliamentary movements and the pressures of patriotism reinforced by the entry of the Bourbon powers into the arena.
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Josiah Tucker, ‘A Letter to Edmund Burke 1775’, quoted in G. H. Guttridge, English Whiggism and the American Revolution (University of California, 1966).
Quoted in Lewis Namier, England in the Age of the American Revolution, London 1930, p. 255.
Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter, English Overseas Trade Statistics 1697–1808 (Oxford, 1960).
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Perry, K. (1990). The Failure of Opposition 1770–82. In: British Politics and the American Revolution. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20931-6_4
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