1Pennsylvania Assembly Committee: Report on the Proprietors’ Answer, 11 September 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...that they are liable, according to the Laws of Great-Britain, to Penalties for contravening...
2Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, [28 May 1754] (Franklin Papers)
...in themselves, not repugnant to the Laws of Great-Britain, or of our said Province,...
3Militia Act, [25 November 1755] (Franklin Papers)
...near as possible conformable to the military Laws of Great-Britain, and to the Articles of War...
4From John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, January 1769 (Jay Papers)
...journals; some flatly repugnant to the laws of Great Britain, and others, with an apparent...
...in the Plantations repugnant to the Laws of Great-Britain. He gives another Construction much...
6[September 1774] (Adams Papers)
...the Parliament, We are independent States. The Law of Great Britain dont bind us in any Case...
...the Parliament, We are independent States. The Law of Great Britain dont bind us in any Case...
8The American Commissioners to Jonathan Williams, Jr., [25 February 1777] (Franklin Papers)
..., to be careful of offending against the Laws of Great Britain by trading or otherways, but to...
....—and by Instructions according to the Laws of Great Britain, to the Commissioners of his...
10[May 1783] (Adams Papers)
...last Evening that all the Laws of Great Britain, for the Regulation of the Plantation Trade...
11David Hartley to the American Peace Commissioners: Memorial and Proposed Article, [19 May 1783] (Franklin Papers)
...of the commercial Policy and Laws of Great Britain, and their subsisting commercial...
12May 22. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
...last Evening that all the Laws of Great Britain, for the Regulation of the Plantation Trade...
13From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 24 May 1783 (Adams Papers)
...the Trade, upon the Plan of the Laws of Great Britain before the War, altho’ those Laws...
14Enclosure V: Henry Martin to Sydney, 6 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
...by any process of Law. Now if the Laws of Great Britain as well as those of Virginia are not...
15Cotton Tufts to John Adams (Adams Papers)
...the operation of those Laws of Great Britain which more immediately affect our...
16The Federalist No. 84, [28 May 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
...their full extent the common and statute law of Great-Britain, by which many other rights not...
17Citizenship, [22 May] 1789 (Madison Papers)
...by the doctrine established by the laws of Great Britain, which were the laws of...
18To James Madison from George Nicholas, 31 December 1790 (Madison Papers)
...port only subject to the navigation laws of Great Britain would answer all their purposes...
19Alexander Hamilton’s Third Draft of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Corn laws of Great Britain
20Alexander Hamilton’s Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, [5 December 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
...skilled workmen and the laws of Great Britain that were intended to discourage the emigration...
21William Bradford and Alexander Hamilton to Edmund Randolph, 4 November[–9 December] 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
...is founded on the standing & ancient Laws of Great Britain, which can be altered only by...
22Political Observations, 20 April 1795 (Madison Papers)
...efforts, to counteract the unequal laws of Great Britain. At another, correspondencies were...
23The Defence No. X, [26 August 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
...ports of entry from the sea. By the laws of Great Britain and of the U States all Rivers are...
24To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 20 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
This is the law of Great Britain and this is the practice. If an Englishman cannot...
25John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 25 February 1804 (Adams Papers)
...of Nations, upon what Treaty, upon what Law of Great Britain can Such a Claim be founded.? I...
26From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 23 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
...liable, according to the municipal Laws of Great Britain, to Impressment for the Naval...
27To James Madison from the Senate (Abstract), 2 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
...the next meeting of Congress, such laws of Great Britain as impose any higher or greater...
28From James Madison to the Senate, 27 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
...meeting, “such laws of Great Britain as impose any higher or greater duties on the...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Tebbs, 18 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
...of British tyrany by the predominant laws of Great Britain I am now in a situation...
30Thomas Jefferson to Skelton Jones, 28 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
law; of Great Britain [index entry]
31Alexander McRae to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
law; of Great Britain [index entry]
32The Dismissal of Livingston v. Jefferson: I. John Tyler’s Opinion in Livingston v. Jefferson, [4 December 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
law; of Great Britain [index entry]
33The Dismissal of Livingston v. Jefferson: II. John Marshall’s Opinion in Livingston v. Jefferson, [4 December 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
law; of Great Britain [index entry]
34From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 21 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
...of the commercial policy and laws of Great Britain and their subsisting commercial engagements...
35Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 17 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
law; of Great Britain [index entry]
36Annual Message to Congress, 7 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
A standing law of Great Britain naturalizes, as is well known, all aliens complying with...
37To James Madison from William H. Winder, 8 February 1814 (Madison Papers)
...of all her native subjects is the law of Great Britain. It is also equally certain that...
38Thomas Jefferson to William H. Torrance, 11 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
law; of Great Britain [index entry]
39To James Madison from James Monroe, 17 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
..., owned and navigated agreeably to the laws of Great Britain, for the space of three months...
40Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 15 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
law; of Great Britain [index entry]
41Thomas Jefferson to James T. Austin, 13 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
law; of Great Britain [index entry]
42Editorial Note: The Impressment of Hugh Purdie and Others (Jefferson Papers)
...by European nations and had been imbedded in the common law of Great Britain for centuries.
43Editorial Note: Threat of Disunion in the West (Jefferson Papers)
...port only subject to the navigation laws of Great Britain would answer all their purposes...