Can you please provide the full question???
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it’s obvious now that the colonies should be free of unfair taxes and have certain rights such as governing ourselves. the british have rejected all the colonists actions to make peace, no matter how much they have begged and positioned the king nothing as worked. this is the first clue that the kind can have no rhyme or reason to his taxes and can do as he sees fit with them.