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not_the_fox t1_itt2fx8 wrote

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And deeply ironic for a country that went to war over taxation with no representation.

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nagrom7 t1_ittpvn0 wrote

Something something Puerto Rico and DC.

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CommyTzar t1_itu0blm wrote

I read that the US actually did have the kind of representation they complained about not having, the irony thickens?

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sensuability t1_ituaki9 wrote

Not much in the way of taxes either. That slogan came out about 70 years after the war of independence.

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not_the_fox t1_iu36amw wrote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation

>The phrase had been used for more than a generation in Ireland.[8][9] By 1765, the term was in use in Boston, and local politician James Otis was most famously associated with the phrase, "taxation without representation is tyranny."[10] In the course of the Revolutionary era (1750–1783), many arguments were pursued that sought to resolve the dispute surrounding Parliamentary sovereignty, taxation, self-governance and representation
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>In the context of British taxation of its American colonies, the slogan"No taxation without representation" appeared for the first time in a headline of a February 1768 London Magazine printing of Lord Camden's "Speech on the Declaratory Bill of the Sovereignty of Great Britain over the Colonies," which was given in parliament.[2] The British government argued for virtual representation, the idea that people were represented by members of Parliament even if they didn't get to vote for them.

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