Colonial Protests Intensify

The Colonists resistance now took 3 forms:

• Intellectual Protests
• Economic Boycotts
• Violent Intimidations

   They use many enlightenment ideas like Montesquieu´s and Locke´s that every men was born with the same rights. They thought that government had to protect these rights.

   Patrick Henry was a young Virginian Representative that used these ideas to write The Virginia Resolves.The most important resolves were on the stamp act. He argue that the colonial assembly was the only assembly that had the right to tax the colonists. In May 30, 1765 the Virginia House of Burgesses agreed all but 2 ideas Henry proposed because they were too radical. 

   As a result almost all the rest of the colonies accepted similar ideas, therefore Colonists were exposed to these radical ideas Henry proposed. The main idea was: The General Assembly of the colony, have representatives with the capacity of the only exclusive right and power to levy taxes on the inhabitants of this colony and that every attempt to vest such a power in any person.
   They were very angry with the British because they were being tax and they didn´t have representation, their rights were not being respected.