Question

Why would American colonists believe that taxation by the Crown, without representation and consent, would be a violation of their rights as British
subjects?
A. The colonists came to America to avoid rule by a monarchy.
B. It violated the principles of the English Bill of Rights.
C. The English Bill of Rights specified that any colonist did not have to pay tax
D. Colonists believed if they did not send a representative, they would have to pay the
tax

Answer 1

a phrase, generally attributed to James Otis about 1761, that reflected the resentment of American colonists at being taxed by a British Parliament to which they elected no representatives and became an anti-British slogan before the American Revolution; in full, “Taxation without representation is tyrant