The very act of taxing, exercised over those who are not represented, appears to me to be depriving them of one of their most essential rights as freemen, and, if continued, seems to be, in effect, an entire disfranchisement of every civil right.
Sumner argues that taxation without representation undermines essential rights of individuals.
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