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Charles Sumner: “I can see no reason to doubt but that the imposition of taxes, whether on trade, or on land, or houses, or ships, on…”

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I can see no reason to doubt but that the imposition of taxes, whether on trade, or on land, or houses, or ships, on real or personal, fixed or floating property, in the Colonies, is absolutely irreconcilable with the rights of the colonists, as British subjects, and as men.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues that all forms of taxation imposed on the colonies violate their rights as British subjects and men.

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