15.The purpose of the petition sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress was to?

Question

A.request a place in Parlaiment for colonail delegates
B.declare the right to bear arms in pursuit of liberty.
C.request that the king consider granting independence to the established colonies.
D. declare their right to approve laws passed by Parliament on behalf of the colonies.

Answer 1

D. This is not the very best way to characterize the First Continental Congress's "Declarations and Resolves", but it is the ONLY one in the list that is TRUE!!

(I'm also not sure calling it a "petition to the King" is the most helpful characterization, though it is the only sort of petition the FIRST Continental Congress DID make.)

At any rate, below are some clips from the document that demonstrate the point above. (For more read the whole thing at the link provided.)

The key is is the FOURTH resolution. Note that the basic point is that Parliament CANNOT properly represent them, and they should be allowed (as before) to decide these matters THEMSELVES. Yet at the end the yield a little ground, agreeing "from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries" to accept SOME acts of Parliament for the benefit of the empire and mother country. . . though NOT taxation "without their consent".

Along the same lines, at the end of the document they reassert their rights and liberties, which "cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by any power whatever, without THEIR OWN CONSENT, BY THEIR REPRESENTATIVES IN THEIR SEVERAL PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE."

(This last line, which I have emphasized, is the clearest support for answer D.)
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Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
OCTOBER 14, 1774

". . . the deputies so appointed being now assembled, in a full and free representation of these colonies. . . do, in the first place, as Englishmen, their ancestors in like cases have usually done, for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties, DECLARE,

"That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North-America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS:

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Resolved, 4. That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council: and as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances, cannot properly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed:

But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bonfide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects, in America, without their consent.

All and each of which the aforesaid deputies, in behalf of themselves, and their constituents, do claim, demand, and insist on, as their indubitable rights and liberties, which cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by any power whatever, without their own consent, by their representatives in their several provincial legislature.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/resolves.htm

Answer 2

From what I even have study - i've got faith D nevertheless i'm going to be incorrect. i ought to discover no connection with A in my interpreting ...... the 1st Continental Congress---- It tried no nationwide legislations.They made a announcement of rights, gentle yet deeply elementary , disavowing a want for independence. in addition they authorized the coverage of non-intercourse with large Britain, and formed an affiliation to hold it out. The forming of this affiliation, which in the initiating constituted the innovative equipment, grow to be an act of large value. Its merchandise grow to be to guard a redress of grievances by potential of non violent strategies, by potential of imposing the non-importation and non-intake contract.