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Beers with our Founding Fathers

New York, with nine colonies represented. The purpose was

to resist the newly enacted Stamp Act due to taxation
without representation. Samuel Adams also formed the

‘Sons of Liberty’, with similar groups being formed in the
other colonies.

 The Declaratory Act of 1766 – The Stamp Act Congress, Sons
of Liberty and similar groups outright denied the right of

England to tax the colonies without representation. Recall
that when the act was read before parliament, the reading

of the petitions of Virginia and other colonies was denied.
Moreover, the colonies did not independently have a

representative in either house of parliament. The
opposition to the Stamp Act was fierce, and it was repealed.

However, it was replaced by the Declaratory Act. The
purpose of this act was to enforce the laws of England upon

the colonies, and those laws specific to the colonies. This
purpose was defined by two parts: 1) for "…better securing

the dependency of his majesty's dominions in America upon
the crown and parliament of Great Britain."; and 2) to deny

the colonies any authority to self-govern, enact laws, or

oppose any laws of England imposed upon them.
 The Townsend Acts (1767-1770) – These were a series of
acts taxing imported goods to the colonies by parliament,

and particularly with their repeal of The Stamp Act under

fierce resistance by the colonists. The various Townsend
Acts were enacted after the belief by parliament that the

colonies would accept the taxation on imported goods. The

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