A combination of protests, declarations, disobedience, local resolutions, support from merchants, and non-enforcement by sheriffs and other local officials created a climate where the Stamp Act was unenforceable. Parliament ended up repealing it even though they didn’t want to. This is what Murray Rothbard called “the peoples’ nullification of the Stamp Act.”

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The Seed from Which the Sons of Liberty Grew

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Sons of Liberty and Resistance to the Stamp Act

Resistance: Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (Oct. 19, 1765)

JL Bell on Colonial Court

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