WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765).

Detailed explanation-2: -Reaction. Although many in Parliament felt that taxes were implied in this clause, other members of Parliament and many of the colonists-who were busy celebrating what they saw as their political victory-did not. Other colonists, however, were outraged because the Declaratory Act hinted that more acts would be coming.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stamp Act of 1765 (1765) The Stamp Act of 1765 was ratified by the British parliament under King George III. It imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.

Detailed explanation-4: -Parliament then passed the Declaratory Act, which stated its right in principle to tax the colonies as it saw fit.

Detailed explanation-5: -The problem for the colonists was that Parliament did indeed have the right to tax them. According to the contemporary jurist William Blackstone, “The power of Parliament [was] absolute” .