History of the United States I / Unit 5 USH1 0614 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Repeal and the Declaratory Act
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The idea
Lord Rockingham repealed the Stamp Act in March seventeen sixty-six, and John Hancock treated the entire town of Boston to drinks.
In practice
Rockingham introducing the Declaratory Act at the same moment.
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It asserted that Parliament's power was supreme and that any colonial laws running counter to parliamentary law were null and void.
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