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Will you lay new and heavier taxes by Parliament on the disobedient?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Will you lay new and heavier taxes by Parliament on the disobedient?”
Editor's note · Context
Burke questions the wisdom of imposing new taxes on colonies that are already disobedient.
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