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1766, the British Parliament passed the Declaratory Act to

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The Declaratory Act was used  in the manner that it had the same power to tax in the colonies as it did in Great Britain.  Parliament used its authority to make binding laws on the American colonies.
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Insist it had the right to tax colonists

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The Declaratory Act was followed after the repeal of the Stamp Act in which the people of America protested around the slogan of " no taxation without representation", The Declaratory act ascertained the right of the British Parliament to tax their American colony.

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