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Quotation from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson
“Those who are taxed without their own consent, given by themselves, or their representatives, are slaves.”
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letter VII (1903 Outlook Company reprint of the 1768 Boston edition, Project Gutenberg text)
The step in Dickinson's syllogism that turns the definition of taxes into a claim about the colonists' condition; a footnote attributes the opinion to William Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act.
Citation: "Those who are taxed without their own consent, given by themselves, or their representatives, are slaves." — John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letter VII (1903 Outlook Company reprint of the 1768 Boston edition, Project Gutenberg text). (id letters-from-a-farmer-in-pennsylvania-q4)
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