Philosophers draw a distinction between positive statements, which describe the world as it is, and , which describe how the world should be.

I believe the answer is: normative statement

Normative statement is often used as if the speaker is living in ideal world. This statement is usually used to encourage someone who is feeling down. For example, when you try to cheer out your friend that dumped by his girlfriend, you would say normative statement such as 'someone as kind as you would eventually meet the girl that deserve you'

so, colonists did not want to pay any taxes.  

colonists did not consider themselves british citizens.  

colonists felt no sense of obligation to britain.  

colonists objected to violations of their natural rights. are the answer choices?

this headline suggests that midterm congressional   elections are at the corner and trump administration wants to activate his base by vowing to clamp down on immigrants and immigration as trump had said during his election campaign around two years ago. when a baby is born in usa, the baby becomes citizen of usa for 85 years and trump wants to end this rule of birthright citizenship to control illegal immigration and this what he said in an interview""we’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the united states for 85 years, with all of those benefits,” "