It stipulated that taxes were to be levied to "discourage luxury" rather than place "unnecessary burdens" on industry.
It stipulated that taxes were to be levied to "discourage luxury" rather than place "unnecessary burdens" on industry. It provided for a legislative body of forty-eight members known as the Grand Council, which was entrusted with making laws "not repugnant", and a President-General, who had the authority to declare war on, purchase land from, and conduct treaties with Native American tribes. It was presented at a congress of delegates from the Iroquois Nations and most northern colonies in the namesake New York city. FTP, name this "plan of union" presented in 1754 by Benjamin Franklin.
It stipulated that taxes were to be levied to "discourage luxury" rather than place "unnecessary burdens" on industry.
{Albany} Plan of Union