SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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The Declaratory Act
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The Quartering Act
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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
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The Townshend Acts
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Detailed explanation-1: -Parliament rejected any criticism that virtual representation was constitutionally invalid as a whole, and passed the Declaratory Act in 1766, asserting the right of Parliament to legislate for the colonies “all cases whatsoever."
Detailed explanation-2: -The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies “in all cases whatsoever."
Detailed explanation-3: -The Amending Act of 1781 was passed by British Parliament on 5th July 1781 to remove the defects of Regulating Act 1773. It is also known as Declaratory Act, 1781.
Detailed explanation-4: -I, c. 5) was a 1719 Act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain which declared that it had the right to pass laws for the Kingdom of Ireland, and that the British House of Lords had appellate jurisdiction for Irish court cases.
Detailed explanation-5: -When Parliament repealed the Stamp Act on March 1766, it concurrently approved the Declaratory Act to justify its repeal. It also declared all resolution issued by the Stamp Act Congress null and void.