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George III himself was said to be in favour of repeal but this memorandum presents a more complex picture. The king believed in England's right to tax its colonies but felt that the existing Stamp Act should be modified.
March 1766: Colonial resistance to the Stamp Act and pressure from London merchants prompt Parliament to abolish the Stamp Act. March 1766: Parliament issues the Declaratory Act, which states that the king and Parliament have full legislative power over the colonies.
The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
This act was passed to assert the authority of the British government to tax its subjects in North America after it repealed the much-hated Stamp Act.
British merchants and manufacturers pressured Parliament because their exports to the colonies were threatened by boycotts. The act was repealed on 18 March 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" by also passing the Declaratory Act 1766.
On March 18, 1766, George III approved Parliament's repeal of the Stamp Act and its passage of the Declaratory Act.
What was the Purpose of the Declaratory Act? The Declaratory Act of 1766 granted Great Britain's Parliament the authority to tax the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever." The main purpose of this act was to assert power to enforce taxes on British colonies in North America.
March 1766: Colonial resistance to the Stamp Act and pressure from London merchants prompt Parliament to abolish the Stamp Act.
The Act's repeal, however, was followed that same day with the Declaratory Act, which maintained that the British Parliament had the right and authority to legislate for the colonies in all cases whatsoever.
