Virtual Representation in the United States
Virtual Representation in the U.S. Legal History
Summary
King George III’s chief minister, George Grenville, employed this concept in 1765 in relation to the Stamp Act. He insisted that all colonists were represented in Parliament by virtue of being English subjects, regardless of where they lived. Grenville was attempting to counter the colonists’ position that King and Parliament had no authority to tax them, since the Americans had no duly elected representatives serving in Parliament.
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