Stamp Act True or False

1. What was the common shorthand slogan used against the Stamp Act? -> "No taxation without representation."
2. What does "no taxation without representation" mean? -> Taxes are inherently illegal.
3. What was the document that gave the colonists legal precedent for no taxation without representation? -> The Bill of Rights of 1689
4. What would have been the likely outcome of allowing the colonists to be represented in Parliament? -> Some. English Parliamentary procedure allows special dispensation to minority populations.
5. When did Patrick Henry deliver his famous "give me liberty" speech and why? -> 1785, as a rejoinder to what he felt was the potential for tyranny in the Constitution.

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