<P> Grenville responded to Pitt: </P> <P> Protection and obedience are reciprocal . Great Britain protects America; America is bound to yield obedience . If, not, tell me when the Americans were emancipated? When they want the protection of this kingdom, they are always ready to ask for it . That protection has always been afforded them in the most full and ample manner . The nation has run itself into an immense debt to give them their protection; and now they are called upon to contribute a small share towards the public expence, and expence arising from themselves, they renounce your authority, insult your officers, and break out, I might also say, into open rebellion . </P> <P> Pitt's response to Grenville included, "I rejoice that America has resisted . Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest ." </P> <P> Between January 17 and 27, Rockingham shifted the attention from constitutional arguments to economic by presenting petitions complaining of the economic repercussions felt throughout the country . On February 7, the House of Commons rejected a resolution by 274--134, saying that it would back the King in enforcing the Act . Henry Seymour Conway, the government's leader in the House of Commons, introduced the Declaratory Act in an attempt to address both the constitutional and the economic issues, which affirmed the right of Parliament to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever", while admitting the inexpediency of attempting to enforce the Stamp Act . Only Pitt and three or four others voted against it . Other resolutions passed which condemned the riots and demanded compensation from the colonies for those who suffered losses because of the actions of the mobs . </P>

Name of british acts taxing goods sent to the colonies