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Exclusion, along with the exaction of revenue from Ireland by the parliament at Westminster, was taxation without representation.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgExclusion, along with the exaction of revenue from Ireland by the parliament at Westminster, was taxation without representation.
Morley highlights the principle of taxation without representation in the context of Irish governance.
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The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.
If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.