Summary: With Passing of the Stamp Act, the British parliament pass the new tax act call the stamp act in hopes to increase revenue from the colonies. This was not the first tax act that had been forced upon the colonist. Though this one they fought against. They argued that there should be no taxation without representation. The British did not like this idea and tried to state that they had virtual representation since, the whole country was taken in to consideration when making new acts, but the colonist was not having this and continued their protest. The British found it more expensive to enforce the act than they were profiting off it and later removed it, but this was not before the creations of the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.