very simply i'd like to know the date it was said and some details on why, who, and about the entire scene at the time. Thanks!|||Who said it first? Not clear. Probably Reverend Jonathan Mayhew. When was it said? As early as 1750.
The phrase "No Taxation Without Representation!" was coined by Reverend Jonathan Mayhew in a sermon in Boston in 1750. By 1765 the term was in use in Boston, and local politician James Otis was most famously associated with the phrase, "taxation without representation is tyranny."
I question as to when Patrick Henry actually uttered the words attributed to him. In 1750 he would have been about 14 years old. Instead I believe his used the words in the 1765 timeframe in connection with the Stamp Act. He must share credit with the Reverend Mayhew and with James Otis.
Patrick Henry's famous words, "no taxation without representation," are as important and relevant today, as they were when he first said them in 1750. Back then, Americans didn't have proper representation in the King's government.
Patrick Henry's resolutions in the Virginia legislature implied that Americans possessed all the rights of Englishmen, that the principle of no taxation without representation was an essential part of the British Constitution, and that Virginia alone had the right to tax Virginians.
Patrick Henry led the opposition to the Stamp Act. His saying was widely in use in 1765, the Tax Stamp Era. In 1765 the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which placed a tax on newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets and broadsides, all kinds of legal documents, insurance policies, ship's papers, licenses, dice and playing cards. This led to widespread protest in the American colonies, and to the slogan, "No taxation without representation!"
Patrick Henry also brought us the saying: "Give me liberty, or give me death".
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