Founding Fathers Forum: Its not just taxation Finland

Posted by: ACE () on 19 Jan 2003 at 9:23:15 PM
In-Reply-To: american revolution questions posted by dana on 4:31:12 PM 16 Jan 2003

dana you have some facts but not all of them. The colonists did not object to the taxes. The problem was that The British were taxing the colonists without REPRESENTATION. One cannot tax a people without those people being represented. When the British ruled on something that had to do with the colonists there were no colonists there to help make their own laws. Everything that came into law regarding the colonies was debated in London. The people that were debating it had no knowledge of what the colonists needed. The slavery issue. Your right but if you research your history during the Civil War the British supported the South. They gave them money and weapons. The British government was not this innocent govt. you speak so fondly of.

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