The Stamp Act of 1765
This led to many altercations and unruly behavior, to say the least. Mobs of protesters, some belonging to the militant group the Sons of Liberty, would threaten Crown-appointed stamp collectors. The threatening behavior of these mobs soon turned to violence and looting. The homes of prominent British politicians such as Thomas Hutchinson, the vice-governor of Massachusetts, were being destroyed and burnt to the ground.
These tactics, however, were not how the colonial leaders wanted to send their message. Instead, a Congress of colonial representatives decided to send a proclamation of their rights and how the acts of Parliament were denying those very rights. In this proclamation, it is stated that the mother country was not extending the proper civil rights to its peripheral brethren and that the very acts that denied these rights were not to be adhered to by anyone in the colonies as a certain protests to Britain's acts.
A more specific case of the colonists' rejection of the Stamp Act can be seen in the town of Braintree. The constituents of one Ebenezer Thayer composed a letter of their feelings on the matter of Britain's misdeeds. First, objections were risen about the vice admiralty courts, which denied the rights of peer judgement so stated in the colonial charter. The other objection was to the implementation and execution of the Stamp Act. The colonists feared that this act was overstepping the bounds of the British government and would threaten the sanctity of the economy of the American colonies. Overall, the villagers of Braintree wanted to assert to public record their objection to the acts and their freedom to act within their own system of law.
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