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By resolutions of legislatures and of town meetings, by speeches and writings, by public assemblies and processions, the country was rallied in peaceful phalanx against the execution of the Act.
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Sumner highlights the collective efforts of the people to oppose the Stamp Act through various forms of activism.
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