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In English history, "no taxation without representation" was an old principle and meant that Parliament had to pass all taxes. At first, the "representation" was held to be one of land, but, by 1700, this had shifted to the notion that, in Parliament, all British subjects had a "virtual representation."
In legalistic terms, he distinguished between legislation and taxation. In the former, Dulany viewed Parliament as supreme throughout the British Empire . However, following the principle that taxes are a free gift of the people, enacted through their representatives, Dulany held that Parliament only possessed the right to tax the people of ...
The heart of the question was the proposition that there should be no taxation without representation; upon which principle it was necessary to observe only that many individuals in England, such as copyholders and leaseholders, and many communities, such as Manchester and Birmingham, were taxed in Parliament without being represented there ...
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He later expanded his criticism of British authority to include tax measures that were being enacted by Parliament. As a result, Otis is often credited with coining the slogan "taxation without representation is tyranny". [1] [2] Otis was a mentor to Samuel Adams, and his oratorical style inspired John Adams.
In an editorial, The Australian Jewish News stated that the Israeli government managed to "prove the pointlessness of a tax revolt" and described the slogan of "no taxation without representation" as "PR hokum. An offer of representation under Israel rule would make no difference to the Palestinians," but stated that there was "little to ...
Murray Rothbard argued in The Ethics of Liberty in 1982 that taxation is theft and that tax resistance is therefore legitimate: "Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one's house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the state, e.g ...
The attempted enforcement of the Stamp Act 1765 in the British colonies in America led to the outcry of "no taxation without representation". The argument over stamp duty contributed to the outbreak of the American War of Independence. Until 1793 stamp duty was always imposed as a fixed amount, regardless of the size of the transaction.