"That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people,and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them, but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representative. IV. That the people of these colonies are not, and from their local circumstance cannot be, represented in the House of commons in Great-Britain V.That the only representative of the people of these colonies, are persons chosen therein by themselves, and that no taxes ever have been, or can be constitutionally imposed on them, but by their respective legislature"
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John Dickinson's "Letter From A Farmer in Pennsylvania".

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The correct option is D John Dickinson's "Letter From A Farmer in Pennsylvania".
"That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people,and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them, but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representative. IV. That the people of these colonies are not, and from their local circumstance cannot be, represented in the House of commons in Great-Britain V.That the only representative of the people of these colonies, are persons chosen therein by themselves, and that no taxes ever have been, or can be constitutionally imposed on them, but by their respective legislature"
The above quote is from John Dickinson's "Letter From A Farmer in Pennsylvania".

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