On the record
That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.
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Sumner asserts the essential principle that taxation requires the consent of the governed, a cornerstone of democratic governance.
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