Both contained a bill or rights
Its called Passive resistence
The colonists had a problem with the Tea Act of 1773 because A. they saw it as the British government giving the East India Company a monopoly on the tea market in the colonies.
Therefore they organized the famous Boston Tea Party which prolonged the war.
I would probably say James Madison
It's, "We hold these truths to be self-evident "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed "by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit "of Happiness.