In response to the Stamp and Tea Acts, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document written by the

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and passed on October 14, 1765. American colonists opposed the acts because they were passed without the consideration of the colonists’ opinion (“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

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"all due subordination". *Colonists possessed all the

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. *

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is a right. *The use of

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was abusive. *Without

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, Parliament could not represent the colonists. *There should be

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. *Only the colonial assemblies had a right to tax the colonies.

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*''The American Journey'' Brief 3rd Edition, Published by Prentice Hall

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