From the site…
“COMMENTARY:
Though the years leading up to this day were charged with popular colonial dissent— as Mr Jefferson reports from the Virginia House of Burgesses in the spring of 1773 the struggle against the hand of the British Parliament is at a stalemate. A clever and temperate Prime Minister, Lord North has, through diplomacy & by staying the tempers of an aggressive Parliament, defused what was to become a popular uprising in the colonies.”
This is an excellent resource to get the mind of the author, and the Country leading up to the Declaration’s writing and signing…
