Particularly taxes to pay for the troops that would protect them after the war they started that basically bankrupted England. I think they were closer to modern day Libertarians than anything else.
Still pleased with the result, though. Just, learning about the revolution beyond the Boston tea party, the Boston Massacre, and the slave-owning Thomas Jefferson waxing philosophical about the merits and necessity of a free society, led me to think of them through a modern perspective (how I might view a similar colony now) and that I probably would have been on the Crown’s side.
“We don’t want to pay taxes if we don’t get a say in governance” shouldn’t really be all that controversial. Even the British acknowledged the absurdity of the situation, though the opinion in the British government was that the colonies should be content with ‘virtual representation’.
Particularly taxes to pay for the troops that would protect them after the war they started that basically bankrupted England. I think they were closer to modern day Libertarians than anything else.
Still pleased with the result, though. Just, learning about the revolution beyond the Boston tea party, the Boston Massacre, and the slave-owning Thomas Jefferson waxing philosophical about the merits and necessity of a free society, led me to think of them through a modern perspective (how I might view a similar colony now) and that I probably would have been on the Crown’s side.
“We don’t want to pay taxes if we don’t get a say in governance” shouldn’t really be all that controversial. Even the British acknowledged the absurdity of the situation, though the opinion in the British government was that the colonies should be content with ‘virtual representation’.