Declaration of Rights and Grievances
In response to the Stamp and Tea Acts, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document written by the Stamp Act Congress and passed on October 14, 1765. American colonists opposed the acts because they were passed without the consideration of the colonists' opinion, violating their belief that there should be "no taxation without Representation". The Declaration of Rights raised fourteen points of colonial protest but was not directed exclusively at the Stamp Act of 1765, which required that documents, newspapers, and playing cards be printed on special stamped and taxed paper. In addition to the specific protests of the Stamp Act taxes, it made the assertions which follow:
- Colonists owe to the crown "the same allegiance" owed by "subjects born within the realm".
- Colonists owe to Parliament "all due subordination".
- Colonists possessed all the rights of Englishmen.
- Trial by jury is a right.
- The use of Admiralty Courts was abusive.
- Without voting rights, Parliament could not represent the colonists.
- There should be no taxation without representation.
- Only the colonial assemblies had a right to tax the colonies.
See also
- Conciliatory Resolution
- Continental Association
- Hutchinson letters affair
- Olive Branch Petition
- Petition to the King (1774)
References
- The American Journey Brief 3rd Edition, Published by Prentice Hall
External links
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Declaration of Rights and Grievances
- Full text
- Declaration of Rights and Grievances, October 14, 1774. Library of Congress
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John Dickinson
- 5th President of Pennsylvania, 1782–1785
- 5th President of Delaware, 1781–1783
- Second Continental Congress, 1775–1776, 1779–1781
- First Continental Congress, 1774
- Stamp Act Congress, 1765
United States
- Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765)
- Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767, 1768)
- "The Liberty Song" (1768
- United we stand, divided we fall)
- Petition to the King (1774)
- Signee, Continental Association (1774)
- Pennsylvania Committee of Correspondence (1774–1776)
- "Letter to the inhabitants of the Province of Quebec" (1774)
- Olive Branch Petition (1775)
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (co-wrote, 1775)
- Committee of Secret Correspondence (1775–1776)
- Model Treaty committee (1776)
- Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (1776, drafting committee chairman)
- President, Annapolis Convention (1786)
- Delegate, Constitutional Convention (1787)
- Mary Norris Dickinson (wife)
- Philemon Dickinson (brother)
- Early life
- Poplar Hall home
- Fair Hill estate
- Friends Burial Ground
- Dickinson College
- Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University
- John Dickinson High School
- 1776 (1969 musical,
- 1972 film)
- John Adams (2008 miniseries)
- Sons of Liberty (2015 miniseries)