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Why did the British want the colonists to pay a greater portion of the cost of imperial governing?

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Townshend explicitly designed them as revenue-raising measures to ensure that the colonists made a financial contribution towards the costs of the salaries of royal governors and other executive and judicial officials in the colonies so that these men would become more dependent on the crown than on the legislative ...

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