Many colonists believed that as they were not represented in the distant British parliament, any taxes it imposed on the colonists (such as the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts) were unconstitutional, and were a denial of the colonists' rights as Englishmen.
The start of the colonists protesting was because they had no say in what they thought was right and how their colonies should be run. They acted and that is how the Boston Tea Party happened because the colonists didn't like the way that the British were taxing there tea so they took a bunch of tea and dumped it over the boat into the Boston harbor. As citizens they should have more rights and they discovered they had these rights when the enlightening and the great awakening had happened, because this gave colonists a reason to protest and fight against them for there…show more content