Excerpt from The Pulpit of the American Revolution, Vol. 1: Or the Political Sermons of the Period of 1776, With a Historical Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations Stamp Act. The colonists, sheltered under the flag of Eng land, permitted her to regulate their foreign commerce; but the Stamp Act violated their domestic independence; and they showed, by custom, by equity, and by their charters from the king, that Parliament had no jurisdiction within their terri tories, and they refused to submit. England sent her armies to compel submission, and the colonists appealed to Heaven. The Stamp Act1 involved the principle in dispute for the next eighteen years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.