Tax Bill Controversy in the SC House of Commons: If British subjects in England could only be taxed by their immediate representatives in the Commons' House of Parliament without amendment by the House of Lords, could British subjects in America be taxed by a body here corresponding to the House of Lords in England ?
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The Constitution and Slavery
Historian's Take -- NRO
. . . That Wilentz’s book is explicitly an examination of the antislavery politics of Congress, which necessarily involved exploring “debates among white elites,” is never considered. Ultimately, Guyatt claims, Fredrick Douglass and others were “acting not as historians, but as activists” when they expressed an antislavery constitutionalism. “Wilentz, while approaching us as the former,” Guyatt laments, “is as much the latter as any of his subjects.”
. . . That Wilentz’s book is explicitly an examination of the antislavery politics of Congress, which necessarily involved exploring “debates among white elites,” is never considered. Ultimately, Guyatt claims, Fredrick Douglass and others were “acting not as historians, but as activists” when they expressed an antislavery constitutionalism. “Wilentz, while approaching us as the former,” Guyatt laments, “is as much the latter as any of his subjects.”
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