Its successful teaching requires more preparation than any earlier section.

The teacher is advised carefully to peruse Channing's _Students' History_, ch.

iv, and to state in simple, clear language, the difference between the ideas on representation which prevailed in England and in the colonies.

Another point to make clear is the legal supremacy of Parliament.

The outbreak was hastened by the stupid use of legal rights which the supremacy of Parliament placed in the hands of Britain's rulers, who acted often in defiance of the real public opinion of the mass of the inhabitants of Great Britain.
V THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1775-1783 Books for Study and Reading References .-- Fiske's _War of Independence;_ Higginson's _Larger History_, 249-293; McMaster's _With the Fathers._ Home Readings .-- Scudder's _Washington_; Holmes's _Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill;_ Cooper's _Lionel Lincoln_ (Bunker Hill); Cooper's _Spy_ (campaigns around New York); Cooper's _Pilot_ (the war on the sea); Drake's _Burgoyne's Invasion; _Coffin's _Boys of '76_; Abbot's _Blue Jackets of '76_; Abbot's _Paul Jones_, Lossing's _Two Spies._.