In so many words, you are about to despoil fellow-citizens of representation, and I say, that, not to be inconsistent with your own institutions and with the principles upon which your government is founded, you must exempt them from taxation.
Sumner asserts that denying representation while imposing taxes is inconsistent with democratic principles.
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