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Lincoln became a favorite exemplar for liberal intellectuals across the world U.S Capitol In 1767 the Parliament passed the Townshend Acts which placed duties on a number of essential goods including paper glass and tea and established a Board of Customs in Boston to more rigorously execute trade regulations the new taxes were enacted on the belief that Americans only objected to internal taxes and not to external taxes such as custom duties the Americans however argued against the constitutionality of the act because its purpose was to raise revenue and not regulate trade. Colonists responded by organizing new boycotts of British goods These boycotts were less effective however as the Townshend goods were widely used. . On January 16 1776 during the Revolutionary War Congress allowed free blacks to serve in the militia Washington initially protested the enlistment of slaves but later relented when the British emancipated and used slaves By the end of the war one-tenth of Washington's army were Blacks, After initial publication many Republicans including Madison criticized the Address and believed it was an anti-French campaign document Madison believed Washington was strongly pro-British Madison also was suspicious of who authored the Address. . 2 History The main result of congressional activity is the creation of laws, most of which are contained in the United States Code arranged by subject matter alphabetically under fifty title headings to present the laws "in a concise and usable form". Compromise and adoption Specializations At the outset of the Revolutionary War the Second Continental Congress was meeting in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania State House On account of British military actions the Congress was forced to relocate to Baltimore Lancaster Pennsylvania and then York Pennsylvania for a time before returning to Philadelphia. Upon gaining independence the Congress of the Confederation was formed and Philadelphia became the new nation's first seat of government Congress did not remain in the city long however for in June 1783 a mob of angry soldiers converged upon Independence Hall demanding payment for their service during the war Congress requested that John Dickinson the governor of Pennsylvania call up the militia to defend Congress from attacks by the protesters in what became known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 Dickinson sympathized with the protesters and refused to remove them from Philadelphia As a result Congress was forced to flee to Princeton New Jersey on June 21 1783 and met in Annapolis and then Trenton before ending up in New York.

8.3 Voting rights debate A term of Congress is divided into two "sessions" one for each year; Congress has occasionally been called into an extra or special session a new session commences on January 3 each year unless Congress decides differently the Constitution requires Congress meet at least once each year and forbids either house from meeting outside the Capitol without the consent of the other house. Howe emboldened by his Long Island victory dispatched Washington as "George Washington Esq." in futility to negotiate peace Washington declined demanding to be addressed with diplomatic protocol as general and fellow belligerent not as a "rebel" lest his men be hanged as such if captured. A slave auction 1853 Commissioned and named by President Washington in 1794.