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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Research for this study was supported by a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and by a Huntington Library-National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Leave from teaching responsibilities at New York University School of Law was provided by the Filomen D'Agostino Greenberg and Max E. Greenberg Faculty Research Fund at the School of Law, and by John Sexton, dean of the School of Law. The manuscript was written amid the beauty and scholarship of the Huntington Library where Mary Wright furnished the eighteenth-century pamphlets, Doris Smedes located the reference books, Gordon Bakken provided the conversation, and Martin Ridge herded the coyotes. The final version in some inexplicable fashion may have benefited from being partly read by that premier band of American legal historians, the members of the New York University School of Law Colloquium in Legal History: John Wertheimer, Peter Hoffer, Jack R. Pole, Martin Flaherty, Robert J. Kaczorowski , Eben Moglen, and William E. Nelson. As with the other volumes in this Revolution-era series, the index was prepared by Carol B. Pearson of Alhamabra, California, and the Huntington Library. A serious error might have appeared in the text except that Richard B. Bernstein pointed out that it was Franklin Pierce and not Levi Woodbury who argued, "We fought the American Revolution to have actual representation, not virtual representation. What we need now is virtual legislation, not actual legislation. It would save us more money than the Stamp Act would have saved the British." Barbara Wilcie Kern discovered that Pierce made this argument during a speech to the New Hampshire House of Representatives when the General Court was debating whether to place a memorial commemorating the revolutionary engagement at Websterbridge. New York University School of Law ...