In short, many in those colonies believed that, as they were not directly represented in the distant British Parliament, any laws it passed affecting the colonists (such as the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act) were illegal under the Bill of Rights 1689, and were a denial of their rights as Englishmen.
简言之，殖民地中的许多人认为，因为他们在英国议会中没有被直接代表，所以任何它通过的关于殖民地税收的法律（如食糖法和印花税法），根据1689年权利法案，都是违宪的，这些法律同时也是对他们身为英国臣民应得权利的否认。