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Colonial outcry against the declaration
- When
- 1766
- Where
- the American colonies
The colonies greeted the 1766 declaration of unlimited parliamentary sovereignty with an outcry of horror.
When the modernised British Parliament issued its declaration that a parliamentary majority could pass any law it saw fit, the assertion was greeted with an outcry of horror in the colonies. This reaction followed earlier colonial challenges to the right of a distant power to tax them without proper representation, raised by the Stamp Act Congress.
Sources
- Declaratory Act Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-15
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