The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document written by the Stamp Act Congress and passed on October 14, 1765. American colonists opposed the acts because they were passed without the consideration of the colonists’ opinion, violating their belief that there should be “no taxation without representation”. The Declaration of Rights raised fourteen points of colonial protest but was not directed exclusively at the Stamp Act. It claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, and stated that, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists.