taxation without representation

noun

, American History.

a phrase, generally attributed to James Otis about 1761, that reflected the resentment of American colonists at being taxed by a British Parliament to which they elected no representatives and became an anti-British slogan before the American Revolution; in full, “Taxation without representation is tyranny.”

In America, low turnout is the new black eye for a country founded on “no taxation without representation.”

Taxes are an obvious benchmark, since right now, employed teenagers are literally subjected to taxation without representation.

“Taxation Without Representation” is on many license plates.

The case is that Obamacare constitutes “taxation without representation.”

Taxation without representation is true of your rotten boroughs as well as of your vast colonies.

"Taxation without representation" was the cause of the war of the American Revolution, but that is another matter.

This hullabaloo about no taxation without representation fills the ears of the ignorant.

The cry passed through the land: "No taxation without representation!"

Militancy among the suffragists continued to flare up here and there in resistance to taxation without representation.

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