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Taxation Without Representation Reading with Questions
The issue thus drawn centered on the question of representation. The colonists believed they could not be represented in Parliament unless they actually elected members to the House of Commons. But this idea conflicted with the English principle of "virtual representation," according to which each member of Parliament represented the interests of the whole country and the empire – even if his electoral base consisted of only a tiny minority of property owners from a given district. This…