Essay 2: Outline

Connecticut
Loyalists

I. The local government in Connecticut became well molded with the help from the loyalists.
-------A. Colonists saw the privilege of the new way of governing Connecticut. Not only will everyone be satisfied but, it will make the colonists happy.
----------i. “The outbreak of hostilities brought no upheaval here in the leadership of affairs. The governor and both branches of the legislature worked together in harmony, and being chosen by the freemen themselves, were enabled to legislate favorably to popular will”.
-------------a. Having the legislatures work together will resolve any problems that they will have to face in the future.
----------ii. “Every town had its three or more selectmen, two or more justices of the peace, two or more constables, town clerk, town treasurer, surveyors of highways, fence-viewers, listers, collectors of taxes, leather-sealers, grand jurors, tithing men, hay-wards, chimney-viewers, gaugers, packers, sealers of weight and measures, key-keepers, records of “sheep-markers” etc”.
-------------a. With this in action, every town will have order and will be considered as an organized town.
-------------b. Unlike patriots, this government will give more organization and be more effective than the self government of the patriots,
-------------c. Self government is not organized and will not lead the growing population of the colonists into the right direction of the future Connecticut.


II. Following the laws of England will keep the people from rebelling and keep everyone satisfied with daily life.
------ A. In the colony, these rules were set to resolve on the Stamp Act.
--------- i. “That the boundaries set by the people in all constitutions are the only limits within which any officer can lawfully exercise authority. That whenever those bounds are exceeded, the people have a right to reassume the exercise of that authority which by nature they had before they delegated it to individuals. That every tax imposed upon English subjects without consent is against the natural rights and the bounds prescribed by the English constitution”
--------------a. Following the English Constitution will make everyday life easier.
------------- b. The people set the boundaries in the constitution and has the freedom to exercise authority lawfully.
---------ii. “That it is the duty of every person in the colonies to oppose by every lawful means the execution of those acts imposed on them, and if they can in no other way be relieved, to reassume their natural rights and the authority the laws of nature and of God have vested them with”.
-------------a. We give every one living in the colony responsibility to be apart of the English Constitution and to participate in the rules of the Constitution.
-------------b. Bottom line is, by British Law, Parliament has the right to tax the colonists and which the colonists has to obey the law and orders given to them.

III. Although, some colonists believed in becoming a self government.
-------A. The loyalists has good intentions but, the patriots do not see that as good intentions. Instead, they seek the loyalists as unfair.
-------B. We are all still British. What ever actions you take, we will always be British and follow the constitution.
-------C. Becoming a self government will create chaos between the colonists and the British . Independence from Britain
-------D. No more import/exports which also means no trade which means colonists will have to learn how to make their own daily accessories (spoons, chairs, etc. ) and learn how to grow their own food.






Title: Uses and Abuses of the American Loyalists' Claims: A Critique of Quantitative Analyses
Author(s): Eugene R. Fingerhut
Source: The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Apr., 1968), pp. 245-258
Publisher(s): Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1919094

Title: The Connecticut Loyalists
Author(s): G. A. Gilbert
Source: The American Historical Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jan., 1899), pp. 273-291
Publisher(s): American Historical Association
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1833556

Title: Connecticut's Villages Become Mature Towns: The Complexity of Local Institutions, 1676 to 1776
Author(s): Bruce C. Daniels
Source: The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jan., 1977), pp. 83-103
Publisher(s): Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1922627