(December 2, 2014 at 12:19 pm)Chad32 Wrote: It's funny how the colonists cried no taxation without representation, while also filling in political seats with white men. Thus began the long hard struggle for equality for anyone not a white man.
Don't forget, it was still a gentry insurgency. The taxation without represantation thing is about english law and that meant at the time, only land owners. having a certain income, could vote and run for political office. It wasn't in any way representative.