It is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives. (John Dickinson (delegate))

It is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.

John Dickinson (delegate)

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