To the Stamp Act's credit, the whole purpose of it is right there in the first line:An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations...

The colonies had no problem with taxes in principle. After all, the Molasses Act had been around for thirty years and no one paid it any mind. They also didn't pay anything as a result of it, which...

This motto is important enough to American history that kids can rattle it off before they know what all the words mean. Just to be clear, here's what it does mean. It's claiming that without repre...