Why should they not pay a part of the cost of maintaining it?
Parliament was the supreme power in the British Empire.

It controlled the king, the church, the army, and the navy.

Surely a Parliament that had all this power could tax the colonists.

At all events, Grenville thought it could, and Parliament passed the Stamp Act to tax them.
[Sidenote: Taxation and representation.] [Sidenote: Henry's resolutions, 1765.

_Higginson_, 161-164; _McMaster_, 112-114.] 108.