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See also:JOSEPH See also:GALLOWAY (1731-1803)
, See also:American lawyer and politician, one of the most prominent of the See also:Loyalists, was See also:born in See also:West See also:River, See also:Anne See also:Arundel See also:county, See also:Maryland, in 1731
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He See also:early removed to See also:Philadelphia, where he acquired a high See also:standing as a lawyer
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From 1756 until 1774 (except in 1764) he was one of the most influential members of the See also:Pennsylvania See also:Assembly, over which he presided in 1766-1773
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During this See also:period, with his friend See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin, he led the opposition to the Proprietary See also:government, and in 1764 and 1765 attempted to secure a royal See also:charter for the See also:province
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With the approach of the crisis in the relations between See also:Great See also:Britain and the American colonies he adopted a conservative course, and, while recognizing the See also:justice of many of the colonial complaints, discouraged See also:radical See also:action and advocated a See also:compromise
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As a member of the First See also:Continental See also:Congress, he introduced (28th See also:September 1774) a " See also:Plan of a Proposed See also:Union between Great Britain, and the Colonies," and it is for this chiefly that he is remembered
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It provided for a See also:president-See also:general appointed by the See also:crown, who should have supreme executive authority over all the colonies, and for a See also:grand See also:council, elected triennially by the several provincial assemblies, and to have such " rights, liberties and privileges as are held and exercised by and in the See also:House of See also:Commons of
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Great Britain "; the president-general and grand council were to be " an inferior distinct See also:branch of the See also:British legislature, See also:united and incorporated with it." The assent of. the
grand council and of the British See also:parliament was to be " requisite to the validity of all
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. . general acts or statutes," except that " in See also:time of See also:War, all bills for granting aid to the crown, prepared by the grand council and approved by the president-general, shall be valid and passed into a See also:law, without the assent of the British parliament." The individual colonies, however, were to retain See also:control over their strictly See also:internal affairs
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The measure was debated at length, was advocated by such influential members as See also:
After he See also:left See also:America his See also:life was attainted, and his See also:property, valued at £40,000, was confiscated by the Pennsylvania Assembly, a loss for which he received a partial recompense in the See also:form of a small See also:parliamentary See also:pension
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He was one of the clearest thinkers and ablest See also:political writers among the American Loyalists, and, according to Prof
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See also:Tyler, " shared with See also: |
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