The circular letter of Massachusetts in 1768.
b. Town committees of correspondence in Massachusetts in
1772.
c. Colonial committees of correspondence in 1773.
d. The habit established through these committees.
5. The Continental Congress:--
a. The immediate causes that led to it.
b. How it might have been temporary.
c. How it became permanent.
d. Its date, place of meeting, and duration.
e. Why "continental" as distinguished from "provincial?"
f. The nature and extent of its authority.
g. The states represented in it never fully sovereign.
6. Give an account of the "Articles of Confederation."
7. Distinguish between the Continental Congress and the
Federal.
8. The powers of the Continental Congress:--
a. Its homelessness and wandering.
b. Its delegates and their voting power.
c. Its presiding officer.
d. Its management of executive matters.
e. The finance committee and its problems.
f. The raising of money.
g. The compelling of obedience.
9. The Continental Congress not a sovereign body:--
a. The nature of real government.
b. Some functions of sovereignty exercised by the Congress.
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