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What they say at the beginning of this document is,
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"In such a scheme (in a scheme of colonial union)
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the just prerogative of the Crown must be preserved
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or it will not be approved and confirmed in England,
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and the just liberties of the people must be secured
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or the several colonies will disapprove of it and oppose it."
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Okay. It's a pretty tricky balancing act that we're talking about.
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So to accomplish both of these things,
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"Short Hints" proposed preserving individual colonial charters,
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and sort of along the lines of what Franklin had envisioned,
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erecting a sort of new structure of government above the colonial charters.
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So it does propose a Grand Council