Taxation without Representation

During the 1760s, American colonists were not satisfied at the fact that all taxation related decisions were made by people living across an ocean, without consious of concerns in their colony. Colonists sought to challenge the status quo, which lead to a  revolution where the colonies fought the British empire for its own independence to have a right to govern its own affairs.

Taxation without Representation is a situation in which a government imposes taxes on a particular group of its citizens, despite the citizens not consenting or having an actual representative deliver their views when the taxation decision was made. This situation was one of the events that inspired the original thirteen American colonies to revolt against the British Empire.