At the First Continental Congress, a plan for keeping the colonies under the British rule was proposed by Joseph Galloway. Called “Galloway's Plan,” it stated that a separate colonial legislature would be created as an addition to the British Parliament; the colonial legislature would be overseen by a President-General, appointed …show more content…
This document explains why the colonies decided to take up arms against the British, incorporating specific events that triggered the war. Policies such as “taxation without representation,” the Intolerable Acts, and the Declaratory Act were addressed in the Documents as grievances that the colonists felt. It even states that that colonists prefered, “to die free men rather than live as slaves.” Though the colonists did not declare that they wanted to seek independence, it was made clear that they would protect their rights and liberties to the greatest