Livingston was a forceful opponent to British imperial policies throughout the 1760s and composed the New York Assembly’s protest to the House of Lords in October 1764 in response to the Sugar Act. While Livingston resisted extralegal means of protests, he preferred to voice his opposition through anonymous polemical essays and pamphlets. The Sentinel (1765) and the American Whig (1768) are two of Livingston’s columns that were published in response to acrimonious politics within the colony of New York. In the first few columns of the Sentinel, Livingston tackled issues associated with the infamous Forsey vs. Cunningham Case. After the passage of the Stamp Act in April 17465, Livingston became more forceful in his arguments on the basis of unconstitutional measures implemented by Parliament that threatened the safeguards of the Constitution and judicial independence. Livingston’s Sentinel essays contained a vast amount of knowledge in constitutional and legal framework and played a decisive role in how the colonists in New York responded to British imperial policies. In the American Whig, Livingston opposed the Townshend Acts and reiterated his arguments that the colonies needed their own Constitution. In the American Whig V, Livingston proclaimed; “The day dawns, in which the foundation of this mighty empire is to be laid, by the establishment of a regular American constitution. All that has hitherto been done seems to be little beside the collection of materials for this glorious fabrick. ‘Tis time to put them together.”