Parliament

Following the French and Indian War, in which Britain was victorious, the American colonists began to react to Britain’s rule in an unruly and disorderly manner. As the colonists began to disobey the laws placed onto them by Parliament, English rule grew stricter. Despite the many benefits and protection given to the colonists by the English, they still behaved rebelliously. The colonists’ unpardonable actions resulted in stricter rules being placed on England established the Proclamation of…

was passed due to the fact that the colonies were trying to smuggle goods into their homes. The stamp act stated that the colonist had to buy stamps for all legal documents, newspapers, and pamphlets. The colonies were even more with the British parliament. The colonies would end up continuing boycotting the products until they would repeal the stamp…

public who were walking along Westminster Bridge, before crashing into the railings in front of Parliament. The perpetrator was armed with knives and attempted to run through the gate to the Palace of Westminster where he stabbed PC Keith Palmer who was unarmed and was trying to stop the attacker from entering the premises. Sadly PC Palmer later died from his stab wounds. Armed officers at Parliament were able to stop the attacker and more armed officers arrived on the scene within minutes. The…

The Seven Year’s war or better known as the French and Indian war, that lasted from 1754 to 1762, left Britain with a huge debt to pay. A Prime minister by the name of George Grenville had a revenue program that would make colonist pay taxes. In that revenue program, the Stamp Act of 1765 was created. The Stamp Act extracted revenue from the colonies by requiring that paper used for official documents such as, newspapers, court documents, and even playing cards, were to be taxed. The Stamp Act…

responsibility by Parliament and it is an important role they must fulfil. The judiciary tend to use deference on national security matters because they are not experts on the issue. However, deference might not be the correct decision in all cases because most cases are on matters of procedure, rather than expertise; in those cases the courts should not refuse to decide the cases on the basis that they are security decisions and outside their expertise . The fact the government and Parliament…

Heatedly debated in Parliament, once passed taxed most paper goods in the British Colonies, from legal documents to playing cards. This presents a clear shift in British policymaking from taxing only goods people could live without to taxing materials necessary for life to continue…

This tea acts allows for the East India company to sell their tea directly to the American colonies. This tea will now be the cheapest tea on the market for s small tax. However, the colonists realize that this is Parliaments way to make them pay taxes. As a reaction to the Tea Act, roughly 50 Bostonians planned out the “Tea Party.” The Boston Tea party was an event where Bostonian’s against the Tea Act would dress up as Native Americans, to represent liberty, despite…

massacre. The Pontiac’s Rebellion, The Sugar Act, and The Stamp Act, The Declaratory Act, The Townsend Act, The Boston Tea party, And the Intolerable Act. These will all lead up to the Navigation Act. Between 1650 and 1696 a parliament passed a new Navigation Act. This parliament limited colonial trade by using Merchlism. It stopped colonist from trading certain items. It made the colonists use English ships to export goods. Then it later required all goods to go through English ports. Colonist…

delegate, sitting in the Virginia legislature. “The stamp act imposed in the colonies by the parliament of Great Britain is an ill judge matter, parliament has no right to put their hands into our pockets without our consent.” Even royal appointees like highly regarded Thomas Hogenson chief justice of Massachusetts are upset. “You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves, parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as whole.” The colonists…

action because Parliament had passed the “Tea Act” which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies, saving the company from bankruptcy. Although the tea remained less expensive, there was an added tax on which the colonists were not allowed to give their consent. Again, Parliament taxed the colonists without their representation and further worsened the American-British relations. News of the Boston Tea Party reached England in January 1774, and Parliament…