Virtual representation was wholly rejected in the colonies also who said the "virtual" was a cover for political corruption and was irreconcilable with their belief that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. In 1765, the American lawyer and politician James Otis, Jr., responded to Soame Jenyns' "The Objections to the Taxation of Our American Colonies, by the Legislature of Great Britain, Briefly Considered". Otis' own publication was entitled "Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists, in a Letter to a Noble Lord". He wrote in it, "To what purpose is it to ring everlasting changes to the colonists on the cases of Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield, who return no members? If those now so considerable places are not represented, they ought to be." Writing in his 1763 publication "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved", Otis declared that,