What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.

— Bernard Bailyn The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

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