So in June of 1765, the Massachusetts assembly sends a circular letter to all of the colonial assemblies - and a circular letter is kind of what it sounds like, a letter intended to circulate - to all of the colonial assemblies inviting them to meet in a congress in New York in October of 1765, quote, “to consider of a general and united, dutiful, loyal and humble representation of their condition to His Majesty and the parliament and to implore relief.” Okay. However, it is Massachusetts that first suggests united colonial action. The Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Thoughts on the Stamp Act So news of this sort of new radical version of the Virginia Resolves gets spread throughout the colonies and colonies are then inspired to pass resolves of their own. The Virginia House of Burgesses did not pass those, did not resolve those, but they get published in Rhode Island right alongside the ones that were passed and resolved, and so they go circulating throughout the colonies, making Virginia look a lot more radical than it was at that particular moment. And then the sort of more radical unpassed resolution number two that got published said, that anyone who asserted that anyone except the Virginia Assembly could directly tax Virginia was, quote, “an enemy of this, His Majesty’s colony.” That’s a much bolder statement than what I just said was happening in those Virginia Resolves. But they’re put right alongside with no differentiation, and these two unpassed more radical resolutions say, quote, “His Majesty’s liege people, inhabitants of this colony, are not bound to yield obedience to any law or ordinance whatsoever designed to impose any taxation upon them.” Okay. These were not passed and possibly weren’t really even discussed, and they’re more radical than the other resolutions. However, what this person does when he publishes these resolves is not only publish the ones that were actually passed, but there are two additional resolves that get published right alongside the ones that were passed. People are reading them and they’re talking about them, but it’s somebody in Rhode Island who publishes the Virginia Resolves in a Rhode Island newspaper. Rhode Island - and why Rhode Island I can’t tell you - but indeed by happenstance, someone in Rhode Island - It circulates. I feel like you’re going to accuse me of planting Rhode Island randomly throughout this course and I’m not. However, they were published in Rhode Island. Now the House of Burgesses passes these resolutions, but in Virginia they weren’t even published in the local newspaper. The Virginia Resolves, May 1765: colonists had come to Virginia with equal rights to all British subjects colonial charters confirmed that Virginians had the right to be governed by their own colonial legislature and the Virginia colonial legislature had not forfeited its right to impose taxes on the colony of Virginia. They said that the colonists had come to Virginia with equal rights to all British subjects that the colonial charter confirmed that that Virginians had the right to be governed by their own legislature and that the Virginia legislature had never forfeited its right to impose taxes on the colony of Virginia.
I think I said Resolutions on Tuesday and let’s stick with Resolves, the Virginia Resolves.Īnd the Virginia Resolves said - There were a number of different - obviously - resolves in the Virginia Resolves. We had a first - our famous Revolution moment number one, Patrick Henry speaking out in the Virginia House of Burgesses, talking about what he dramatically called his colony’s dying liberty, and at the very end of the lecture I mentioned that in May of 1765, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed some protesting resolutions ultimately known as the Virginia Resolves. I talked about - I described Patrick Henry. Professor Joanne Freeman: Tuesday we ended with the angry response in the colonies to the passage of the Stamp Act, 1765.
The Circulation of the Virginia Resolves
The American Revolution HIST 116 - Lecture 6 - Resistance or Rebellion? (Or, What the Heck is Happening in Boston?)Ĭhapter 1.
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