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| | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - LoveToKnow Article on BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | In spite of the opposition in the colonies to the Declaratory Act, the Townshend Acts and the tea tax, Franklin continued to assure the British ministry and the British public of the loyalty of the colonists. |
 | | Hillsborough, who became secretary of state for the colonies in 1768, refused to recognize Franklin as agent of Massachusetts, because the governor of Massachusetts had not approved the appointment, which was by resolution of the assembly. |
 | | Franklin contended that the governor, as a mere agent of the king, could have nothing to do with the assemblys appointment of its agent to the king; that the King, and not the King, Lords, and Commons collectively, is their sovereign; and that the King, with their respective Parliaments, is their only legislator. |
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