-en. 1  Suffix variant for the illative singular, see-Vn. 2  Suffix for the genitive plural. ( 3 personal) Forms the impersonal potential present forms of verbs, appended to the infinitive, followed by the potential mood marker-ne- .
â No taxation without representation â refers to the slogan from 1750s and 1760s that encapsulates the prime grievance of the Thirteen Colonies. It is actually part of a sermon given by Jonathan Mayhew in 1750. It was also one of the causes of the American Revolution.
The saying is apocryphal and was originated by the populist author T. Cushing Daniel, a Washington-based lobbyist and lawyer, in his testimony before the U.S. Congress in 1911 in hearings on House Resolution 314 (whether financiers were restricting trade by domination of the money supply). This is what Daniel said: