Declaration of Rights and Grievances

For the later declaration resulting from the 1774 Coercive Acts, see Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress.

The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document written by the Stamp Act Congress and passed on October 19, 1765. It declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.

The Declaration of Rights raised fourteen points of colonial protest but was not directed exclusively at the Stamp Act 1765, which required that documents, newspapers, and playing cards be printed on special stamped and taxed paper. In addition to the specific protests of the Stamp Act taxes, it made the assertions which follow:

Colonists owe to the crown "the same allegiance" owed by "subjects born within the realm".
Colonists owe to Parliament "all due subordination".
Colonists possessed all the rights of Englishmen.
Trial by jury is a right.
The use of Admiralty Courts was abusive.
Without voting rights, Parliament could not represent the colonists.
There should be no taxation without representation.
Only the colonial assemblies had a right to tax the colonies.

References

"The American Journey" Brief 3rd Edition, Published by Prentice Hall

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Ratified	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

Pending	Congressional Apportionment Titles of Nobility Corwin (State Domestic Institutions) Child Labor

Unsuccessful	Equal Rights District of Columbia Voting Rights

See also	List of Constitutional Amendments Bill of Rights (Amendments 1–10) Reconstruction Amendments (Amendments 13–15) Amendment proposals in Congress Conventions to propose amendments State ratifying conventions

Formation

Clauses

Interpretation

Signatories

Convention President	George Washington

New Hampshire	John Langdon Nicholas Gilman

Massachusetts	Nathaniel Gorham Rufus King

Connecticut	William Samuel Johnson Roger Sherman

New York	Alexander Hamilton

New Jersey	William Livingston David Brearley William Paterson Jonathan Dayton

Pennsylvania	Benjamin Franklin Thomas Mifflin Robert Morris George Clymer Thomas Fitzsimons Jared Ingersoll James Wilson Gouverneur Morris

Delaware	George Read Gunning Bedford, Jr. John Dickinson Richard Bassett Jacob Broom

Maryland	James McHenry Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Daniel Carroll

Virginia	John Blair James Madison

North Carolina	William Blount Richard Dobbs Spaight Hugh Williamson

South Carolina	John Rutledge Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Charles Pinckney Pierce Butler

Georgia	William Few Abraham Baldwin

Convention Secretary	William Jackson

Display
and honors

Declaration of Independence

Primary author

Thomas Jefferson

Signatories

President of Congress	John Hancock (Massachusetts)

New Hampshire	Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts	Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island	Stephen Hopkins William Ellery

Connecticut	Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott

New York	William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris

New Jersey	Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania	Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross

Delaware	George Read Caesar Rodney Thomas McKean

Maryland	Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia	George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton

North Carolina	William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn

South Carolina	Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton

Georgia	Button Gwinett Lyman Hall George Walton

See also

John Dickinson

5th President of Pennsylvania, 1782–1785 5th President of Delaware, 1781–1783 Second Continental Congress, 1775–1776, 1779–1781 First Continental Congress, 1774 Stamp Act Congress, 1765

Founding of the United States	Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765) Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767, 1768) "The Liberty Song" (1768 United we stand, divided we fall) Petition to the King (1774) Signee, Continental Association (1774) Pennsylvania Committee of Correspondence (1774–1776) Letter to the inhabitants of the Province of Quebec (1774) Olive Branch Petition (1775) Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (co-wrote, 1775) Committee of Secret Correspondence (1775–1776) Model Treaty committee (1776) Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union (1776) President, Annapolis Convention (1786) Delegate, Constitutional Convention (1787)

Other events	Brigadier General, Pennsylvania militia Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 Delaware Constitution of 1792

Life and homes	Mary Norris Dickinson (wife) Philemon Dickinson (brother) Early life Poplar Hall home Fair Hill estate Friends Burial Ground

Legacy	Dickinson College (formerly John and Mary's College) The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University – Dickinson Law The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University – Penn State Law John Dickinson High School 1776 (1969 musical, 1972 film) John Adams (2008 miniseries) Sons of Liberty (2015 miniseries)

Related	Claymont Stone School American Revolution patriots

Origins of the American Revolution: writings

American resolves, declarations, petitions, essays and pamphlets prior to the Declaration of Independence (July 1776)

Following the
Stamp Act (1765)

Virginia Resolves (May 1765)
Braintree Instructions (September 1765)
Declaration of Rights and Grievances (October 1765)
An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (1766)

Following the
Townshend Acts (1767)

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767, 1768)
Massachusetts Circular Letter (February 1768)
Journal of Occurrences (1768, 1769)
Virginia Association (May 1769)
Boston Pamphlet (1772)
Sheffield Declaration (January 1773)

Following the
Coercive Acts (1774)

Maryland	Chestertown Resolves (May 1774) Bush River Resolution (March 1775)

Massachusetts	Suffolk Resolves (September 1774)

New York	Orangetown Resolutions (July 1774) A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress (December 1774) The Farmer Refuted (February 1775)

North Carolina	Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves (August 1775) Halifax Resolves (April 1776)

Virginia	Fairfax Resolves (July 1774) Fincastle Resolutions (January 1775) Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776)

1st Continental Congress	Declaration and Resolves (October 1774) Continental Association (October 1774) Petition to the King (October 1774)

2nd Continental Congress	Olive Branch Petition (July 1775) Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 1775) May 15 preamble (May 1776) Lee Resolution (July 1776)

Essays and pamphlets

Letters to the inhabitants of Canada (1774, 1775, 1776)
A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
Novanglus (1775)
Common Sense (January 1776)
Thoughts on Government (Spring, 1776)

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