During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events resulted in
Colonial opposition to Great Britain. The conditions of rights of the
colonists will slowly be changed as the constriction of the parliament
becomes more and more intolerable. During the Seven Years' War England was
not only alarmed by the colonists' insistence on trading with the enemy,
but also with Boston merchants hiring James Otis inorder to protest the
legality of the writs of assistance (general search warrants) used to hunt
out smuggled goods. "let the parliament lay what burthens they please on us,
we must, it is our duty to submit and patiently bear them, till they will
be pleased to relieve us....". This is a very strong dictum, that in 1764,
the colonists were of a submissive nature, and were weakly pleading for
self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge conflagration as
the rights are slowly rescinded.
On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation
committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the
English crown. "I.That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the
same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his
subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august
body, the Parliament of Great Britain." This statement can be used as a
summation of the entire document that the Stamp Act Congress had initiated.
The statement depicts the colonists has having to be submissive and servile
in the view of Great Britain, this policy angered the colonists very much,
and was another component of the transition of the colonists' rights and
liberties.
When the Declatory Act was passed in March of 1766, many colonies were
attempting to claim that they were "seceding" from England. "Whereas
several of the...
Events leading to the American Revolution
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