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Declaration of Rights and Grievances

The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document created during the Stamp Act Congress declaring that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional. This was especially directed at the Intolerable Acts.

The Declaration of Rights raised fourteen points of colonial protest.

Only the colonial assemblies had a right to tax the colonies. (no taxation without representation).
Trial by jury was a right, and the use of Admiralty Courts was abusive.
Colonists possessed all the Rights of Englishmen.
Without voting rights, Parliament could not represent the colonists.

Political origins of the American Revolution

American resolves, declarations, petitions, essays and pamphlets from Stamp Act (1765) to the Declaration of Independence (July 1776)

Following the
Stamp Act (1765)

Virginia Resolves (May 1765) • Declaration of Rights and Grievances (October 1765) • An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (1766)

Following the
Townshend Acts (1767)

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767) • Massachusetts Circular Letter (February 1768) • Boston Pamphlet (1772) • Sheffield Declaration (January 1773)

Following the
Coercive Acts (1774)

Maryland	Chestertown Resolves (May 1774) • Bush River Resolution (March 1775)

Massachusetts	Suffolk Resolves (September 1774)

New York	Orangetown Resolutions (July 1774)

North Carolina	Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) • Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) • Tryon Resolves (August 1775) • Halifax Resolves (April 1776)

Virginia	Fairfax Resolves (July 1774) • Hanover Resolves (July 1774) • Fincastle Resolutions (January 1775) • Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776)

1st Continental Congress	Declaration and Resolves (October 1774) • Continental Association (October 1774) • Petition to the King (October 1774)

2nd Continental Congress	Olive Branch Petition (July 1775) • Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 1775) • Lee Resolution (July 1776)

Essays and pamphlets

A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774) • Novanglus (1775) • Common Sense (1776) • Thoughts on Government (1776)

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