What Is The Relationship Between The Stamp Act And Great Britain

The relationship between the colonies and great britain began to turn in the early 1700s . britain viewed the colonies as a source of raw material and also a marketplace for england's goods. In the Declaratory Act, Great Britain argues that the authority was the same in the American colonies as it was in England. This meaning the british government could make any law they wished with no needed approval from the colonies, As stated here ‘’Full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of america, subjects of the crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.”(pgh. 2) The Declaratory Act repealed the stamp act, and further declared the british right to tax the colonies. In

They declared in this document that as subjects of the king they have the same rights as british colonists. Only the colonies have the rights to places taxes on the american colony. In Resolutions of the Stamp Act, they state, “that the only representatives of the people of the colonies, are persons chosen therein by themselves, and that no taxes ever have been, or can be constitutionally imposed on them, but by their respective legislatures” (pgh. v). In The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, in the text they explain the rights that belong to all the american colonists, as well as the slaves. It illustrates the colonists growing frustration with the laws that the british were enforcing. The american colonies want to have a good relationship with the british, but the british imposing many laws against them is turning them against. For example, in The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved they state, “we all think ourselves happy under Great Britain. We love, esteem and reverence our mother country, and adore our king ….. Till driven to it, as the last fatal resort against ministerial oppression, which will make the wisest mad, and the weakest strong”(pgh.15). The colonies want to continue with the british colonists but are being pushed to much causing them to want their independence from britain. In the Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, Dickenson states, “that the increase, prosperity, and happiness of these colonies, depend on the full and free enjoyment of their rights and liberties, and an intercourse with Great Britain mutually affectionate and advantageous’’(XII). The only way the colonies could be happy is if the british allow them their full rights and liberties, and not have laws consistently placed upon