Henry's Resolutions, 1765 .-- The colonists, however, with one voice, declared that Parliament had no power to tax them.

Taxes, they said, could be voted only by themselves or their representatives.

They were represented in their own colonial assemblies, and nowhere else.
Patrick Henry was now a member of the Virginia assembly.

He had just been elected for the first time.

But as none of the older members of the assembly proposed any action, Henry tore a leaf from an old law-book and wrote on it a set of resolutions.