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— Bernard Bailyn"That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident."
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The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
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