• FireTower@lemmy.world
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      We had representation. In each colony’s own legislature before they started shutting them down. Representation would never happen in British parliament as it’d establish precedent for other colonies and Britain would soon be out numbered. Americans didn’t want representation we wanted to prevent a precedent that we could be treated as an economic resource tile for the British to suck dry and abandon starving and sick.