4. That one of these rights was that of being taxed "by their own Assembly."
5. That they were not bound to obey any law taxing them without consent of their Assembly.[1]
[Footnote 1: These resolutions, printed in full from Henry's manuscript copy, are in Channing's _The United States of America, 1765-1865, _pp. 51, 52. They were passed May 29, 1765.]
Massachusetts followed with a call for a congress to meet at New York city.
%112. Stamp-act Congress.%—To the congress thus called came delegates from all the colonies except New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. The session began at New York, on the 5th of October, 1765; and after sitting in secret for twenty days, the delegates from six of the nine colonies present (Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland) signed a "Declaration of Rights and Grievances." [1]
[Footnote 1: This declaration is printed in full in Preston's Documents
Illustrative of American History, pp. 188-191.]
%113. Declaration of Rights.%—The ground taken in the declaration was:
1. That the Americans were subjects of the British crown.
2. That it was the natural right of a British subject to pay no taxes unless he had a voice in laying them.
3. That the Americans were not represented in Parliament.