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Why Is Great Britain Unconstitutional
My first reason is that Great Britain was enforcing numerous law among the colonies that would’ve been considered unconstitutional. The first example I present is the Sugar Act, this act lowered the tax on molasses that was being imported. The act violated many of the colonists rights, one of the rights it violated was the law stating the person was innocent until proven guilty. When you really read that law you think that this is reasonable. It’s basically saying, you are not guilty unless someone proves it but Britain didn’t have the effort to think about what the constitution would’ve thought. So, that’s an example of how they passed an unconstitutional law. Another example would be the Quartering Act of 1765, this act stated that British

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