@Outsideness @mcsam_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts …
"To punish the Province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act
To establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies"
The colonies were utterly dependent on outside forces for security, but felt entitled to not pay for them.
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Of course all this leads back to England allowing a parliament in the first place. Should have - at worst - been abolished by this time.
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