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of a trial by jury.
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Third, they were alarmed at the implications
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of the Currency Act
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because the implications are, if you think about it,
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Grenville basically saying
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he can nullify an act passed by a colonial assembly.
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That's--in the minds of the colonists--a pretty alarming precedent.
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And then finally, fourth, colonists were also alarmed
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that these new duties and these new acts
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that are being enforced
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were largely intended to fund a standing army in the colonies,
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a standing army that Parliament saw as being protective,