Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
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so great a dissimilarity of Religion, law, and government, of the neighboring British colonies. . . .
Also the act passed the same session for the better providing suitable
quarters for officers and soldiers in his Majesty’s service in North America.
Also, that the keeping a standing army in several of these colonies, in
time of peace, without the consent of the legislature of that colony in
which the army is kept, is against law.
To these grievous acts and measures Americans cannot submit, but in
hopes that their fellow subjects in Great-Britain will, on a revision of
them, restore us to that state in which both countries found happiness
and prosperity, we have for the present only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures: 1st. To enter into a non-importation, nonconsumption, and non-exportation agreement or association. 2. To prepare an address to the people of Great-Britain, and a memorial to the
inhabitants of British America, & 3. To prepare a loyal address to his Majesty, agreeable to resolutions already entered into.