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3/ 1 Oct 1774: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petition_to_the_King …
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4/ 5 July 1775: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Branch_Petition …
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5/ Yep, exactly. In DoI: "In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury."https://twitter.com/Ranba_Ral/status/1200068238333349888?s=19 …
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skeptical of the "civil disobedience & many petitions of redress" that really isn't how I remember the years leading to 1776 played out.... lol
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There were 3 or 4 years of petitions of redress, and they were continually rebuffed by Parliament, and often brought reprisal in response. That's why there's specific mention of it in the Declaration of Independence and is an enumerated right in the First Amendment
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