One of the five Intolerable Acts unjustifiably put in place by England was the Boston Port Act. Basically cutting of trade in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, there could have been many better alternatives to this Act. The way that Parliament reacted …show more content…
This act was very unjustified as it simply allowed British soldiers to infringe on colonial privacy and utilize civilian homes as barracks. It not only infringed upon their privacy and freedom but did so without consent or notification. Once again this looks bad on Parliament's behalf. No well run government forces military power within civilian space and expects them to be okay with it. The new lodging situations left colonists with less space, less happiness and less privacy. Parliament could have handled this situation better by housing soldiers in tents, spare ships, campgrounds, etc… and yet they chose to inconvenience and enraged the colonists causing more problems for themselves. Despite the fact that the General Assembly said they “beg Leave to assure [the king’s] Excellency that nothing would give [them] a greater Pleasure than to find it in [their] Power to comply with every Requisition tending in any manner to promote His Majesty’s Service” and are obligated to the king, they go on to say that “It is therefore with great Concern that [they] find it impossible to comply with what is now demanded, consistent with [their] Obligations to [their] Constituents [citizens of the colony]” (New York General Assembly 1766). Even the New York Assembly, which addresses the Governor in a loyalist manner, refuses to comply with the unjustified Quartering