logic of resistance

the Intolerable Acts in 1774

a response to the destruction of tea in Boston Harbor

1 the Boston Port Act

2 the Quartering Act(军队驻扎法)legalized the quartering of British troops

3the Administration of Justice Act(诉讼法案)

4the Massacusetts Government Act

the council(顾问委员) could not weto the governor's decisions

these acts deprived the colonies of some pretty basic British constitutional rights

a military commander was sent to be the new governor

a standing army(常备军)

the colonies didn't want to break away at this point, they just want to make some compromise

so a joint congress from all the colonies was sujested to be estabished to discuss their problems

the First Continental Congress

it wasn't a sort of dire radical body

Four Keys

1 it's actually kind of practical

2 it forced people from very separate colonies_in a way(一定程度上),really aort of separate nation-states__to meet one another and stay with another for a long time

3 to John Adams and some others,the fact that now this congress exsited seemed to be a training ground for American statesmen.

4 it was that at least to some back in England the Continental Congress symbolized a move towards rebllion

Lock the social contract theory

spirit of Enlightment

关于香港问题的思考：

现在中央政府同特区政府的矛盾开始加深，双方对港人治港的问题存在着认识差异，一些大陆学者和香港学者相互指责，这对于问题实在无益，美利坚殖民地的历史事实正在提醒着我们：加强两岸之间的联系，统一我们双方对于政府权力的认识是非常重要的！