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Die Empörung galt dem bereits erwähnten Schachzug des Kronrats, den katholischen Frankokanadiern ihre Kultur, Kirche und Rechtsprechung zu lassen, oder anders ausgedrückt, ihnen "das freye System Englischer Gesetze" vorzuenthalten - was die Betroffenen sicher nicht als tyrannische Unterdrückung bewerteten.
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The list of indictments, therefore, also enumerated decisions that to us do not appear to be grave injustices, such as the adjourning of the Massachusetts assembly "at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records. " Or the complaint about the Quebec Act of 1774, which concerned two Privy Council decisions about the size and self-governance of a colony that was not even part of the coalition of resisting colonies. Quebec's southeastern border had indeed been extended to the Ohio and the western slope of the Appalachians. The Congress's anger was directed against the crown's clever move to guarantee to the Catholic French-Canadians their culture, their church and their Roman civil law; or, to put it the other way around, to deprive them of "the free System of English Laws" - a deprivation surely not experienced as an act of tyrannical suppression by the Quebecois.
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