john adams said taxation without representation is tyranny quote.
john adams said taxation without representation is tyranny quote.
who said taxation without representation is tyranny quote?
john adams
the eloquent 1768 petition, memorial, and remonstrance objecting to taxation, written by the virginia house of burgesses and endorsed by every other colony, was sent to the british government, which seems to have ignored it.









































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the phrase had been used for more than a generation in ireland. by 1765, the term was in use in boston, and local politician james otis was most famously associated with the phrase, "taxation without representation is tyranny." in the course of the revolutionary era (1750–1783), many arguments were pursued that sought to resolve the dispute surrounding parliamentary sovereignty, taxation, self-governance and representation.
no taxation without representation
in english history, "no taxation without representation" was an old principle and meant that parliament had to pass all taxes. at first, the "representation" was held to be one of land, but, by 1700, this had shifted to the notion that, in parliament, all british subjects had a "virtual representation." "we virtually and implicitly allow the institutions of any government of which we enjoy the benefit and solicit the protection," declared samuel johnson in his political pamphlet "taxation no tyranny". he rejected the plea that the colonists, who had no vote, were unrepresented. "they are represented," he said, "by the same virtual representation as the greater part of england." however, the tradition of greater democracy amongst americans gave impetus to the well-founded charge, voiced by britons and colonists alike, that virtual representation was "sophistry" and "a mere cob-web, spread to catch the unwary, and intangle ["sic"] the weak." the colonial insistence on direct representation as opposed to virtual representation has thus been seen by later commentators to have "usher[ed] in a profound political and social revolution, which rooted out most of the remaining traces of monarchic rule and feudalism inherited from the only partially complete english bourgeois revolution. the americans carried through the bourgeois democratic revolution on a scale never before seen in history."
no taxation without representation