Friday 8 August 2008

Why were the colonies "unfairly represented" in Parliament?

It's
not so much that the colonists were unfairly represented in Parliament; they weren't represented
at all, and this was a major point of contention between the Americans and the British. A
growing number of American colonists believed that it was unfair that they continued to pay
taxes without being represented at Westminster (evident in the rallying cry, "No taxation
without...

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