Every proposition made in your Parliament to remove the original cause of these troubles, by taking off taxes obnoxious for their principle or their design, has been overruled,--every bill brought in for quiet rejected, even on the first proposition.
Burke highlights the repeated rejection of proposals to alleviate the causes of colonial unrest.
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