The Colonial Resistance To British Policies and The Men Behind the US Constitution

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The Colonial Resistance to British Policies and the Men behind the US Constitution

The Stamp Act that has been imposed by the British Parliament in 1965 had spurred and engendered widespread resistance among the colonies . The Stamp Act compelled the colonist to purchase stamps and them to several legal documents even to insignificant playing cards . The Act convened for the first time all 13 colonies forming the Stamp Act Congress ' which goal is to abolish particularly the Stamp Act

and unparallel British policies and declared that the parliament must respect their traditional rights and liberty and that they must be represented by the one they elected who recognizes their needs and concerns (www .tax .org . Mobs , riots and boycotts of British goods ensued showing the colonies resistance . But revolution has not spurred yet , they endured the iniquity of the Parliament . However , series of events happened like the Gaspee Affair , and the proclamation of unprecedented acts that caused suppression to the colonies . This triggered the spread of ideologies that aroused their awareness and the formation of Congress that ended their loyalty to the parliament and further elicited the outbreak of the revolution

During and after the revolution , government inefficacies concerning taxation matters and finance were encountered causing anxiousness to several nationalist including George Washington , Robert Morris , James Madison , Benjamin Franklin , John Jay , Alexander Hamilton , and John Adams (www .tax .org . They wanted to advocate a stronger central government to administer fiscal and commercial policies to sustain a liberties and stable national economy (www .tax .org . And so does the amendment of the constitution . Since the taxes are the primary issues and representation the article 1 , section 8 , clause 1 granted the power to impose taxes directly or indirectly , further it stated that the indirect taxes must be geographically uniform . Similarly Article I , Section 9 stated that "no capitation or other direct tax shall be laid , unless in proportion to the census or enumeration (www .tax .org . The constitution also provides the power to lay and collect taxes on the Congress . In so doing , there is equal taxation and their stated clearly who will impose and collect taxations

Works Cited

Tax History Museum . 1756-1776

The Seven Years War to the American Revolution http /www .tax .org /Museum /1756-1776 .htm

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