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Great Britain did not respect the colonists in that they gave them no formal say in British Parliament. They forced the colonist's to pay high taxes while not allowing them any members in the House of Commons or other British branches. This is where the term "taxation without representation" is coined. Furthermore the British imposed laws and such that hurt the people, example being the colonists had to quarter the British soldiers whether they liked it or not, a thing we are now protected against by our own American constitution.

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