No taxes sans representation. That's a different point. If we were prevented selling woolens because the Kings junta back home felt threatened, then Americans had no way to petition parliament. Keeping down the Scots and the Welsh and Irish are one thing, but its harder putting down a continent wide revolt. Secondly, the British decided that there were more goodies in India to loot. The 1812 War proved my first point. Also, America having a formal constitution caused the British under classes to demand the same. The Great Reform Act of 1832 for example. By this time the UK was surpassing the US in personal freedoms, and didn't have that pesky little problem of slavery, as an actual menace by then.
-----Original Message----- From: LizR <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Nov 20, 2013 6:07 pm Subject: Re: Telmo On the US COnstitution On 21 November 2013 11:37, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > who just did not want to pay taxes to the King of England, Good on them. What next? Pay taxes to wizards and dragons? Weird comment. The King of England was only, in their view, an inappropriate subject to pay taxes to because they were no longer his subjects, at least in a de facto sense. They weren't against taxes per se, and set up a system in which people were expected to pay taxes. (And if wizards and dragons existed, people would indeed pay them taxes, or as we'd call it, protection money!) No matter how good your case, a reasoned argument is better than an invalid comparison. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
