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<span>"[The registrar] brought a big old book out there, and he gave me the sixteenth section of the constitution of Mississippi, . . . I could copy it like it was in the book, but after I got through copying it, he told me to give a reasonable interpretation and tell the meaning of the section I had copied. Well, I flunked out." Source: A History of the United States since 1861</span>
Answer:
some items that were taxed by the Britain is the first derelict tax on the American colonies like those passed 1764 was enacted to raise money for Britain, taxed newspapers,almanacs,pamphlets,broadsided,legal documents,dice and playing card .
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