House Quote by Albert Bushnell Hart

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just…

— Rand Paul

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its…

— George Washington

“By March 1766, colonist boycotts had proved so costly to British merchants that Parliament repealed the stamp tax without having collected a single penny.”

— Harlow Giles Unger

“To this declaration they added a definite act of sovereignty which trespassed upon and contradicted the legal authority of the Crown. True, the motion…

— Hilaire Belloc

What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain…

— Bernard Bailyn

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

— Peter Thomas

Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of…

— Melville Fuller

It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights it has…

— Bob Latta

Margaret Thatcher's decision to use Scotland as a testing ground for the poll tax was arguably the most disastrous attempt at fiscal engineering since…

— Linda Colley

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon…

— Caleb Cushing

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

— William Wilberforce

I was still in parliament when the Labour government passed the Freedom of Information Act. As the then shadow home secretary I queried whether…

— Ann Widdecombe