Debate on Political Rights

nThesis A: the taxes are just, because there is “virtual representation” of the colonies in Parliament nAntithesis B: these taxes have no legitimacy, because the American colonists are not represented in Parliament nCounter-thesis C: there can be only one sovereign within the British polity, and it is Parliament (of which the King is a part) n(New) American thesis: we are independent of the British Parliament, though we accept King George as our common sovereign