"Taxation and representation are inseparable … for whatever is a man's own, is absolutely his own; no man hath a right to take it from him without his consent, either expressed by himself or representative; whoever attempts to do it, attempts an injury; whoever does it, commits a robbery, he throws down and destroys the distinction between liberty and slavery."
— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden (1714-1794) Speech in the House of Lords on the Declaratory Bill of the Sovereignty of Great Britain over the Colonies, March 7, 1766
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| Political cartoon designed and distributed in London by Benjamin Franklin as part of his campaign to repeal the Stamp Act (circa 1766) Artist and engraver are unknown |
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