The Pamphlet, Entitled, “Taxation No Tyranny,” Candidly Considered, and it’s Arguments, and Pernicious Doctrines, Exposed and Refuted
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1775 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
The Pamphlet Debate on the American Question in Great Britain, 1764-1776 selected by Jack Greene, makes available in modern digitized form a trove of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets that directly addressed what became known in metropolitan Britain as the American Question. This pamphlet is a part of that collection.
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This pamphlet, which is one of many responses to Samuel Johnson’s Taxation No Tyranny, emphasizes the concord which had existed between Great Britain and the colonies in previous times. Now, though, “The Tories have forced us into a situation which threatens shipwreck.” He argues for the importance of the rule of law, and the long history of legal limits on government overreach, and spends much of the pamphlet taking on Johnson’s piece, paragraph by paragraph and phrase by phrase.
The text of these 18th century pamphlets has been converted by machine from scanned PDFs of the original microfilm copies. While the text has been machine-proofed, transcription errors may still remain. For example, the 18th-century long S, ſ , may be rendered as “f,” some words may be incorrectly transcribed, and there may be repeated words or phrases.