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- Title
A Meteor and a Generous Mind: The Revolutionary Political Thought of Thomson Mason.
- Authors
MCGILL, KATHY O.
- Abstract
The article discusses the political philosophy and writing of author, legislator, and attorney Thomas Mason prior to the American Revolution. It discusses his essays concerning British taxation and decrees such as the Stamp Act of the American colonies for the publication the "Virginia Gazette," and some of his views which were presented in the publication "A Summary View of the Rights of British America" that was issued by U.S. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson.
- Subjects
MASON, Thomas; POLITICAL philosophy; TAXATION; VIRGINIA Gazette; GREAT Britain. Stamp Act (1765); SUMMARY View of the Rights of British America, A (Book : Jefferson); COLONIAL United States, ca. 1600-1775; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, 2017, Vol 125, Issue 2, p98
- ISSN
0042-6636
- Publication type
Article