If he does, he deprives me of my liberty and makes me a slave.… 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 emphasizes the fundamental right to representation in government and the dangers of taxation without it.
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