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According to the [[British Constitution]], British subjects could not be [[No taxation without representation|taxed without the consent]] of their representatives in Parliament. Because the colonies elected no members of the British Parliament, many colonists viewed Parliament's attempt to tax them as a violation of the constitutional doctrine of taxation only by consent. Some British politicians countered this argument with the theory of "virtual representation", which maintained that the colonists were in fact represented in Parliament even though they elected no members. This issue, only briefly debated following the Sugar Act, became a major point of contention following Parliament's passage of the [[Stamp Act 1765|1765 Stamp Act]]. The Stamp Act proved to be wildly unpopular in the colonies, compelling Parliament to repeal it the following year.
Implicit in the Stamp Act dispute was an issue more fundamental than taxation and representation: the question
==Townshend's program==
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