Objections To The Taxation Of Our American Colonies

Alex Kinsler
Professor Pacholl
US History I (to 1865) Section 01G Spring 2018
17 February 2018

Debate Over Taxation and Representation The colonists against Parliament was a true tug of war where each side were trading blows like two heavyweight boxers. British Parliament did not want the colonists to move westward to a new land, and thus created a border among the Appalachian Mountains, which angered the colonists. The colonists wanted to further abroad their land. Stemming from that occurrence was The Sugar Act, Tea Act, and Stamp Act. Colonists were eventually able to persuade the Parliament to repeal The Stamp Act, but to make up for that and to exert their dominance over the colonies, the Parliament came up with a new Act which was the Declaratory Act, written in early 1766. The Parliament created this to make sure the colonists knew

In the first sentence of the article, “Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain Briefly Considered,” Jenyns says the right to tax the colonies is “indisputably clear” and later says “The liberty on an Englishman cannot mean that is, an exemption of from taxes imposed by the authority of the Parliament of Great Britain. Likewise, his counterpart Johnson in “Taxation no Tyranny” says “A tax is a payment, exacted by authority, from part of the community, for the benefit of a whole.” These articles are written from a very strong British stand point that clearly states the British Parliament felt as though it was their right to govern over the