Some colonies had official agents to Parliament, like Benjamin Franklin, but no colonies ... clear the “taxation without representation” argument. The protests against the Stamp Act also ...

The Stamp Act of 1765 angered many colonists ... doesn't have representation in the government. The slogan "No taxation without representation" was first adopted during the American Revolution ...

Yes, the U.S. declared independence from the British Crown in 1776. But the kind of “king” these protesters seem to fear had ...

The phrase “no taxation without representation” is often repeated but rarely understood. But when Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765, it was well understood by commoners and gentlemen ...

The first big post-war tax imposed on the colonists was the Stamp Act of ... of taxes without a vote to be unconstitutional. It was, they felt, "taxation without representation." ...

Two hundred years ago, The Stamp Act Congress met in New York and condemned the Crown for taxation without representation. The colonies told the English they had no right to tax anyone who had ...

Some colonies had official agents to Parliament, like Benjamin Franklin, but no colonies ... clear the “taxation without representation” argument. The protests against the Stamp Act also ...

One of the slogans used during our American Revolution was: “No taxation without representation.” King George III and his unelected governors could and did impose things like the Stamp Act and ...

“No taxation without ... having no representation in the distant British Parliament, felt that laws it passed affecting them (such as the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act) were illegal and were ...