Declaration Of Rights And Grievances

The declaration of rights and grievances of the colonies was a document made up by the first congress of the American colonies in opposition to the tyrannical acts of the british parliament. The document gives light on the stamp act from the colonies perspective, it was drawn up by representatives from 9 of the American colonies, a group that would be known as the stamp act congress. The Stamp act made it so colonists had to buy and affix to all sorts of printed matter, it was used as a way to raise money for the british government through the colonies. The document consists on 13 grievances the congress had with the stamp act, a major point being that the mother country had no right to force a tax on the colonies when the colonies were not
represented in government across the ocean in England. This statement that the british could not tax the people of America without giving them a say in parliament would lead to the cry of “No Taxation Without Representation”, a phrase and idea which was one of the backbones the American side of the Revolutionary war.