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	taxation without representation in 1775 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		James Otis raises the issue of taxation without representation and urges a united response to the recent.
		Taxation Without Representation The colonists were forced to pay taxes for many.
		Taxation Without Representation Leads To The American Revolution The Catalyst of taxation without representation was the Stamp Act of 1765.
	taxation.financemaverick.com /taxation-without-representation-in-1775.html (367 words)

	No taxation without representation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A slightly different version, "Taxation without representation is tyranny," is attributed to James Otis.
		In modern times, the phrase "Taxation Without Representation" appears on the automobile license plates of Washington, D.C., to protest that city's lack of representation in the United States House of Representatives and Senate (although the district does have a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives who can sit on committees and participate in debates).
		British Prime Minister John Major used a modified version of the quote, with the order reversed, in October 1995, when at the United Nations's 50th Anniversary celebrations he said, "It is not sustainable for states to enjoy representation without taxation," in order to criticise the billion-dollar arrears of the United States's payments to the UN.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/No_taxation_without_representation (342 words)

	Boston Tea Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Acts of 1767 angered colonists regarding British decisions on taxing the colonies with no representation in the Westminster Parliament.
		Hancock organized a boycott of tea from China sold by the British East India Company, whose sales in the colonies then fell from 320,000 pounds (145,000 kg) to 520 pounds (240 kg).
		By 1773, the company had large debts, huge stocks of tea in its warehouses and no prospect of selling it because smugglers such as Hancock were importing tea without paying import taxes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boston_Tea_Party (627 words)

	No taxation without representation
		Taxation Without Representation is the Rule of Law in Washington, DC no taxation without representation.
		I think it was called "taxation without representation no taxation without representation..
		The Colonists felt strongly that there should be no taxation without representation,and George Ill was unable to explain to them convincingly why they.
	www.lookfinance.com /no-taxation-without-representation.html (331 words)

	US Constitution - Time Line, America During the Age of Revolution, 1764-1775
		In Massachusetts, participants in a town meeting cried out against taxation without proper representation in Parliament, and suggested some form of united protest throughout the colonies.
		The Stamp Act Congress passed a "Declaration of Rights and Grievances," which claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, and stated that, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists.
		In response to Parliament's relaxation of its taxation laws, the colonies relaxed their boycott of British imported goods (1767).
	www.usconstitution.com /constitutiontimeline.htm (1752 words)

	The American Revolution
		By the end of the year, many colonies were practicing nonimportation, a refusal to use imported English goods.
		Samuel Adams wrote a statement, approved by the Massachusetts House of Representatives, which attacked Parliament's persistence in taxing the colonies without proper representation, and which called for unified resistance by all the colonies.
		British troops continued to attempt to seize colonial ammunition, but were turned back in Massachusetts, without any violence.
	www.theamericanrevolution.org /tline.asp (3447 words)

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