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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: DDH - The Stamp Act Revival
Description: One  November 1, 1765, the Stamp Act, passed by Parliament and given assent by King George III, took effect in Colonial America. For most Americans of that day, it was an intolerable action that violated the basic principle of "No taxation without representation."
In  Britain, the tax was seen as being implemented in the "easiest and least  objectionable way," which was, of course, a big part of the problem. It seemed  that Parliament had more or less forgotten why there were colonies in America to  begin with. It wasn't because British loved anglophiles had braved the stormy  Atlantic ocean to sho...