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“No taxation without representation.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Origins of Modern Politics

The slogan "No taxation without representation" distilled into five words the constitutional principle around which colonial resistance to Britain crystallised after 1765 — that a subject's property could not lawfully be taxed by a legislature in which he had no elected voice — and it remains one of the most consequential political phrases in modern…

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  • Origins: The Post-1763 Fiscal Crisis
  • Mobilisation: From Grievance to Slogan
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