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Galloway's Plan of Union: Wikipedia

Union: Joseph Galloway, Plan of Union

A Candid Examination of the Mutual Claims of Great-Britain and the Colonies: with a Plan of Accommodation on Constitutional Principles, by Joseph Galloway

At the 1st Continental Congress, Pennsylvania delegate Joseph Galloway proposed a union of Great Britain and the American colonies, with an American colonial parliament called the Grand Council "for regulating the general affairs of America," under a President General appointed by the King. A similar plan was ultimately put in place for governing the overseas dominions of the 2nd British Empire.