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Edmund Burke's speech on conciliation with the American colonies
Edmund Burke's speech on conciliation with the American colonies Author:Edmund Burke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Pbeliminaby Debates Fob Pbactice As the purpose of the study of Burke's Speech on Conciliation is the development of the student's argumentative power, and as... more » this development can be had only by practice, every opportunity for the student's practice should be seized upon. No better opportunity can be found for increasing the student's interest in the history study preparatory to the study of the speech itself, and for giving him practice in speaking, than by debating upon questions chosen from the history leading up to the study of the Speech on Conciliation, A student will master the history leading up to the Speech on Conciliation in no other way with such interest and rapidity as he will while he is studying that history in order to prepare for a debate upon some question drawn from that history. The debate furnishes a motive for the study of the history with zeal. For two reasons, therefore—practice in speaking, and the finding of a motive for the deeper interest in the history leading up to the study of the Speech—the questions for debate should be chosen from the history that is being studied. The following questions will serve as specimens: 1. Was the British Government justified in closing the port of Boston ? 2. "Was the conduct of the British soldiery in the Boston massacre justifiable ? 3. Was the Stamp Act a justifiable governmental measure ? 4. Was England justifiable in her policy of " making the colonies useful to the mother country " ? 5. Was the British Government justifiable in abrogating the charter of Massachusetts in 1774 ? 6. Were the Bostonians justifiable in throwing the tea overboard in the " Boston Tea Party " ? It will be seen that the study of a question like one of these for the purpose of debating upon it is sure to incite a...« less