Discuss the decisions made by the First Continental Congress concerning the Galloway Plan, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, and the Continental Association. In what ways were these decisions important? What did these decisions imply about the relationship between the colonies and England?
The conservatives, Joseph Galloway and his allies, proposed a formal plan of union that would have required parliament and a new American legislature consent jointly to all laws pertaining to the colonies, this was narrowly rejected by the delegates John Adams drafted the congress’s Declaration of Rights and Grievances which read in part states: ”From the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfu
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