• MxM111@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    What they were effectively asking for was self-governance, being removed from parliamentary control.

    Yes, how else it can be interpreted? This is what freedom is on state level - self governance.

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      8 months ago

      how else can it be interpreted?

      As a call for representation in Parliament, the body levying taxes.

      The slogan wasn’t “No taxation unless we are an independent political entity”.

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        8 months ago

        I don’t know. Since this slogan was always related to revolution against British, I always thought it was not about “gives us representation”, but about “stop taxing us, we want to be free of you”.