The English Crown · Atlas

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For example, it absolved the people from their allegiance to the English crown.

The English monarchy, treated as the institutional source of arbitrary legislative and judicial power.

In saying this, I do not mean that absolute power has been vested in the hands of the king alone;

Patents for new inventions have, in England, always been classed under the head of “monopolies” arbitrarily granted by the crown.

Now the granting of monopolies—by which I mean the granting exclusively to one what is the right of all—was plainly incompatible with the Common Law.

British monarchy to which American colonists formerly owed allegiance.

For example, it absolved the people from their allegiance to the English crown.