- Compare and Contrast What is similar about why Congress and the courts infor- mally change the Constitution? How do their methods of changing the Constitu-
tion vary?

c. businesses/firms & government

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.

the answer is going to be c

the debate held in 1980 by carter and reagan was decisive for the elections. while carter tried to convince people that reagan was a "war hawk", reagan put all his efforts in showing the necessity to take care about medicare and the social security advantage. this debate reagan to win the elections