GRANVILLE LEVESON-GOWER

(Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford)


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Granville Leveson-Gower

You Americans have wrong ideas of the nature of your constitution. The instructions given to colonial governors were the law of the land and colonial legislatures have no right to ignore them.
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Franklin and many Americans believed that the Colonial Legislatures were independent legislative bodies and need not follow the instructions of the Colonial Governors even though they came from the British Government in London. Franklin replied "This is new doctrine to me."" 1st Marquess of Stafford

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Granville Leveson-Gower
  • Born: August 4, 1721
  • Died: October 27, 1803
  • Nationality: British
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Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, PC, known as Viscount Trentham from 1746 to 1754 and as The Earl Gower from 1754 to 1786, was a British politician from the Leveson-Gower family.