Parson's Cause
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title:
Parson's Cause
text:
The "Parson's Cause" was a legal and political dispute in the British colony of Virginia often viewed as an important event leading up to the American Revolution. Colonel John Henry, father of Patrick Henry, was the judge who presided over the court case and jury that decided the issue. The relatively unknown Patrick Henry advocated in favor of colonial rights in the case. In 1758, the House of Burgesses passed the Two Penny Act. According to legislation passed in 1748, Virginia's Anglican clerg
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1760s political dispute in British Virginia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parson%27s_Cause
date created:
2005-10-28T00:15:08Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T16:43:55Z
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