"It is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them, but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives." — Stamp Act Congress, Declaration of Rights and Grievances, 1765
The table and excerpt together best support which colonial argument?
- A
Colonial assemblies had no right to tax their own citizens
- B
Only the king, not Parliament, could levy any tax on colonists
- C
Colonists welcomed parliamentary taxation as a way to share imperial burdens
- Dcheck_circle
Parliament could not constitutionally tax colonies that lacked representation in it
Explanation
The pattern of revenue acts triggered the Stamp Act Congress's principle that taxation required consent through representation—the basis of "no taxation without representation."