Charles Sumner: “One of its elementary parts and consequences is that it sanctions the…”

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One of its elementary parts and consequences is that it sanctions the acknowledged tyranny of taxation without representation.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner highlights the injustice of taxation without representation as a form of tyranny.

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