Samuel Adams
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Romanticism
The Great Awakening had more people care & participate in church. The people questioned authority & believed in equality.
Parliament's emergence became a check upon the power of the King of England. As Parliament's stature grew more and more powerful, the King's powers diminished. The King was no longer completely above the law as he had been before there was a Parliament. Although the common person did not have rights of voting for members of Parliament at first, the emergence of Parliament showed that the people the King governed had a say in how he governed. This also introduced the concept that governmental powers should be separated; that no one person or group should have total control over all the powers that a government has.
To reduce competition from imported goods by making them more expensive
Oh honey, that's an easy one. We're talking about good ol' dictatorship, where one person or a small group of elites call all the shots while the rest of the population just has to sit back and deal with it. It's like a bad game of Simon Says, except there's no winning and definitely no democracy.