What Came Before the Declaration of Independence?

On July 18, 1774, George Washington, George Mason and other leading Alexandrians gathered at the Courthouse on Market Square in Alexandria to approve what document asserting colonists’ rights under British Law – a forerunner of the American Declaration of Independence?

a) The Bill of Rights
b) The Fairfax Resolve
c) The Mason Doctrine
d) The Treaty of Alexandria
e) The Articles of Confederation

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Answer: The Fairfax Resolve

The “Fairfax Resolve” was the most detailed and influential resolution of the more than thirty such resolutions passed by counties in Virginia asserting the rights of American colonists and rejecting the British Parliament’s claim to supreme authority.  The Fairfax Resolve also called for a boycott of English goods.

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