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Old 01-24-2006, 04:15 PM   #305 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by madeinNY
But they WERE represented...everyone that sat in parlement represented them...

So now....

Actual representation VS. Virtual Representation
America wanted to make its own decisions from its own parliament. Pitt, the British Prime Minister, told them to go screw themselves basically, and for a laugh started imposing taxes on things like paper. Bostonians tore shít up and threw tea about, those HOUNDS, and we started a fight we never had a chance of winning.

American independence was always going to happen, Britain never had the resources to continue running an empire of such a scale, hence why today Britain controls, well, a rock at the southern tip of Spain, and pretty much bugger all else.
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