Base your answer to question 15 on the passage and your knowledge of social studies. In England there can be no taxation without representation, and no representation
without election; but it is undeniable that the representatives of Great-Britain are not
elected by nor for the Americans, and therefore cannot represent them; and so, if the
parliament of Great-Britain has a right to tax America, that right cannot possibly be
grounded on the consideration that the people of Great Britain have chosen them their
representatives, without which choice they would be no parliament at all.
Political Register's Demophoon, "A Dissertation on the original Dispute between
Great Britain and her Colonies", 1700
Colonists supported the slogan, "no taxation without representation" because