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19899 | The consent of the people is essential for any tax [Locke] |
Full Idea: The legislative power must not raise taxes on the property of the people without the consent of the people given by themselves or their deputies. | |
From: John Locke (Second Treatise of Government [1690], 142) | |
A reaction: He will be thinking of the resistance to Ship Money in the 1630s, which was a step towards civil war. The people of Boston, Ma, may have read this sentence 80 years later! |