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"The right of the Legislature of Great-Britain to impose taxes on her American Colonies... has been lately called in question... The liberty of an Englishman cannot be taken away by any taxes, to which he has not consented by his representative... But is this the fact? Are they not represented in the same manner as the inhabitants of Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, and Birmingham, none of whom choose a single representative?"

— Soame Jenyns, British writer and Member of Parliament, The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies Briefly Consider'd, 1765

The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly support which of the following British arguments during the 1760s?

  1. A
    The Stamp Act should be repealed because colonial courts have ruled parliamentary taxation without direct representation to be unconstitutional.
  2. The British government holds the authority to tax the colonies because all British subjects are represented in Parliament, even if they cannot vote for representatives.Cevap
  3. C
    Direct colonial representation in Parliament is necessary to transition the British Empire from mercantilism to free-market capitalism.
  4. D
    The Townshend Acts were passed before the Stamp Act to establish direct parliamentary control over local colonial courts.

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The British government holds the authority to tax the colonies because all British subjects are represented in Parliament, even if they cannot vote for representatives.
The correct answer is correct because the author of the source argues that the colonies are represented in Parliament in the same manner as several large English towns (such as Manchester and Leeds) that did not have direct representation. This concept, known as virtual representation, was the primary intellectual and political defense used by British authorities to justify taxing the American colonies without granting them seats in Parliament.

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1
Analyze the primary source excerpt to identify the author's main claim and reasoning.
The author argues that colonists are represented in Parliament in the same way as residents of English cities like Leeds or Manchester that do not elect representatives.
This establishes the core argument of virtual representation used by British defenders of parliamentary taxation.
2
Compare the identified argument with the answer choices.
The option stating that the British government holds the authority to tax because all subjects are represented in Parliament aligns directly with the text.
This option correctly defines the concept of virtual representation presented in the source.

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The concept of virtual representation as the British justification for taxing the American colonies without direct representation.
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