The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . • SHILI^ILKCIS/ English Stamps for the AmericanColonies. The 124 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION colonists emphatically asserted that they could be legally taxedonly when the taxes were levied by their representative as-semblies, and not by the English Parliament, in which they hadno representation. Taxation without representation is tyranny,they declared. This cry of no taxation without representation had been. Fiuiu the ijauuing liy Kuthuruicl. Patrick Henry addressing the Virginia Burgesses. voiced by James Otis of Mass
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . • SHILI^ILKCIS/ English Stamps for the AmericanColonies. The 124 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION colonists emphatically asserted that they could be legally taxedonly when the taxes were levied by their representative as-semblies, and not by the English Parliament, in which they hadno representation. Taxation without representation is tyranny,they declared. This cry of no taxation without representation had been. Fiuiu the ijauuing liy Kuthuruicl. Patrick Henry addressing the Virginia Burgesses. voiced by James Otis of Massachusetts four years previous tothe passing of the Stamp Act. In opposition to the acemptsto enforce the navigation laws, he argued strongly that Englandhad no right to tax the colonies iniless they should have repre-sentation in the Parliament. In the Virginia House of Bur-gesses in 1765 Patrick Henry ^ offered resolutions declaring that 1 Patrick Henry (17301-1709) was a native of Hanover County, Virginia. Heearly turned from business, for which he had no liking, to the study of law. THE ESTRANGEMENT OF THE COLONIES 125 the colonies had all the privileges of Englislimen, and thatVirginias charter gave them the right to be taxed by their ownassembly alone. Henrys eloquence carried the resolutions witha storm of applause. For five hundred years it had been a fundamental principlewith the English people that no taxes could be lawfully laid onthem but by their own consent or b
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