Thursday, October 9, 2008

Defending Taxes

When North American colonists protested at the taxes Briain was levying, Parliament replied that the colonists were still British subjects under British law, so they were subject to British taxation. Parliament said that it represented all British subjects, even the colonists across the Atlantic Ocean, who didn't have representitives in Parliament. Using this information, imagine you are a member of the British Parliament and write a response to the colonists who are complaining about taxation without representation.

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