To be content to bind America by laws of trade.
Parliament had always done it.

And this should be the reason for binding their trade.

Not to burden them by taxes; Parliament was not used to do so from the beginning; and this should be the reason for not taxing.
These are the arguments of states and kingdoms."[39] The ministry were strong enough to carry their resolutions through both Houses.

Their measure was divided into two acts, one known as the Declaratory Act, asserting the absolute and universal authority of Parliament; the other repealing the Stamp Act of the preceding year.

And both were passed without alteration, though the Lords divided against them on both the second and third readings of the bill for repeal founded on them,[40] some of them entering long protests in the journals of the House.