Article One of the Constitution illustrates how the national government's power is
<span>"a. derived from the states and the people". This is the main idea of popular sovereignty, which is the bedrock on which the US was formed. </span>
The geographic feature that form to Easton boundary of the 13 American colonies was the Atlantic ocean
A series of four acts, the Townshend Acts were passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties. The acts were resisted everywhere with verbal agitation and physical violence, deliberate evasion of duties, renewed nonimportation agreements among merchants, and overt acts of hostility toward British enforcement agents, especially in Boston. In response, in October 1768, Parliament dispatched two regiments of the British army to Boston.
