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That's one way of looking at it. Another way, one I suspect they'd argue, is that without Parliamentary supremacy, the instability of the 17th Century and earlier would return, with the King and Parliament constantly at odds and civil war again a threat. That it could also lead to rolling back...

A veritable sausage of reasons. The view that the colonies needed to pay their share for Britian's war debts, that Parliament's authority must be supreme to preserve national unity and political stability, and worries about the colonists enriching European rivals with trade (mercantilism was a...