. Una storia degli Stati Uniti: Membri dell'ow mandano, per quanto grande fosse. Alle città di sametime che una volta avevano ricevuto il diritto di inviare mem-bers e che erano cresciute piccole non hanno perso la destra. Se ora lo stesso signore possedeva tutta la proprietà in una città o in tre o quattro di loro, scelse i membri. Partiture di membrierano in reaHty chiamate dai grandi signori o dal re. I thecolonisti non avrebbero resistito a una legislatura come questa. La Teirobiezione, tuttavia, era che il parlamento non li rappresentava nel senso in cui avevano inteso la rappresentanza. Il Stamp Act è stato approvato nel 1765. È stato modellato upona sta

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. A history of the United States. ow send members, however big it was. At the sametime towns which once had received the right to send mem-bers and had grown small did not lose the right. If nowthe same lord owned all the property in a town or in threeor four of them, he chose the members. Scores of memberswere in reaHty named by great lords or by the king. Thecolonists would not have endured a legislature like that. Theirobjection, however, was that parliament did not representthem in the sense in which they understood representation. The Stamp Act was passed in 1765. It was modeled upona statute then successfully enforced in England. Stampsvarying in value from one cent to $50 must be placed upon 1 In 1765 the colonists did not object so much to indirect taxes like thosein the Sugar Act as to direct taxes like those in the Stamp Act. But afterthe repeal of the Stamp Act they became convinced that any tax levied byparliament, instead of by their own legislatures, was injurious to them. RESISTANCE TO THE STAMP ACT 167. every almanac, newspaper, pamphlet, marriage license, andcollege diploma, as well as upon a multitude of legal docu-ments. Officials were to be appointed to sell the stamps. Resistance to the Stamp Act. — Patrick Henry of Virginiaand James Otis of Massachusetts were again the boldestadvocates of colonial rights.Henrys resolutions againstparliamentary taxation, passedin the Virginia assembly, werecopied in colony after colon3Town-meetings and countyassemblies, ministers in theirsermions, and newspapers intheir editorials, joined in theeffort to awaken the wholepeople. A storm of declarations ofrights, remonstrances, and peti-tions swept the country. The legislatures of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia protested against the Stamp Act. James Otissuggested a general Congress of delegates from the colonies.In October, 1765, representatives from nine met in the cityhall at New York. Other colonies sent letter

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