In the Letter to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec, the delegates of the First Continental Congress, then presided by Henry Middleton, address the people of the said province following the adoption of the Quebec Act.
The delegates informed the people of Quebec of five important rights of British constitutional law which were not in force in their colony over a decade after the peace treaty of 1763, which ended the French and Indian War, and resulted in every French subject becoming a new British subject equal in rights to all other British subjects.
The people of Quebec were invited to give themselves the provincial representation the Quebec Act did not provide for, and have this representative body send delegates for the next continental Congress, to be held in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775.
Journals of Continental Congress, Volume I, pages 105-113, also available online on The Founders' Constitution Web Site, by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, University of Chicago Press and the Liberty Fund.
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