The Stamp Act was a major source of tension between the British and the colonists in the years leading the start of the War of Independence. The act was part of a broader constitutional crisis between the colonies and England. Echoes of that crisis have reverberated all the way through America’s history until today. The…
Taxation was the flashpoint between colonists and the British government, but a deeper issue was underneath - Parliament's power over the colonies and the rights of the colonists as Englishmen.
The act required the colonists to quarter British soldiers at “inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualing houses, and the houses of sellers of wine and houses of persons selling of rum, brandy, strong water, cider or metheglin.
There exists a story, so horrific, coming out of West Australia that every single person who wishes to remain free must be made aware of. Continue reading →