representation
Admission to the British parliament
They didn't expect to have a a representative government in the colonies... but they did want one.
The colonists did not want taxes imposed by the british parliament.
The taxation to the colonists. Britain said that they could do that because they were in charge of everything that happened in their territory. The colonists said that they could not be taxed because there was no representation in Britain's Parliament.
American colonists objected to British taxes because the colonists had no vote on the taxes and no representation in the British parliament. The colonists' catchphrase for protests was "taxation without representation", because they were being taxed without representation in the parliament and that's why they were mad.
the colonists did not want to be taxed directly by parliament
The colonists thought that if they had no say in the Parliament, then they should not have to fund it.The Parliament tried 3 different ways to get the colonists to pay the taxes, but the colonists protested, sometimes violently. It got to the point where British troops were deployed to Boston, thus starting the American Revolutionary War.
Admission to the British parliament
the colonists did not want to be taxed directly by parliament
the colonists did not want to be taxed directly by parliament
the colonists did not want to be taxed directly by parliament
It because of racism practice in taxation system. American Colonists had no representation in Parliament.
Whately felt that the American colonists should be willing to pay higher taxes to parliament. He thought American's should be happy to pay for the protections Britain had provided to them.
At this point int time, the colonists and Britain had a vastly different social structure, not to mention other things. Parliament simply did not share the colonists' interests. The colonists wanted to be represented by those who shared their interests, but when Parliament refused (arguing in favor of "virtual representation"), the Revolution ensued.
They didn't expect to have a a representative government in the colonies... but they did want one.
The American colonist model of legislature was patterned after the English Parliament. The primary concern was that the government have a balance of power.
Colonists protested taxes passed by parliament because colonists had NO representatives in parliament