ACTS 2

1 SAMUEL 8-22

ARTCLES OF
CONFEDERATION

AMERICAN
REVOLUTION

DECLARATIONS

ASSASSINATIONS

UNITED NATIONS

TAXPAYERS MONEY

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY

OATHS OF OFFICE

DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE

US CONSTITUTION

BILL OF RIGHTS

STAMP ACT

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Isaiah 59:17 KJV
17 For he put on
righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head;
and he put on the
garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.

Declarations lasted ten years in response to the heavy taxation on the Colonists before the beginning of the American Revolution, 1765-1765

The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was issued on October 19, 1765 by the First Congress of the American Colonies, also known as the Stamp Act Congress

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Rights_and_Grievances

10 Years later:

The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (also known as the Declaration of Colonial Rights, or the Declaration of Rights), was a statement adopted by the First Continental Congress on October 14, 1774, in response to the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament.

The Declaration outlined colonial objections to the Intolerable Acts, listed a colonial bill of rights, and provided a detailed list of grievances. It was similar to the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, passed by the Stamp Act Congress a decade earlier.

For the later declaration resulting from the 1774 Cap Acts, see Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress.

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 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.
  

The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (also known as the Declaration of Colonial Rights, or the Declaration of Rights), was a statement adopted by the First Continental Congress on October 14, 1774, in response to the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament. The Declaration outlined colonial objections to the Intolerable Acts, listed a colonial bill of rights, and provided a detailed list of grievances. It was similar to the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, passed by the Stamp Act Congress a decade earlier.

The Declaration concluded with an outline of Congress's plans: to enter into a boycott of British trade (the Continental Association) until their grievances were redressed, to publish addresses to the people of Great Britain and British America, and to send a petition to the King.

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