Use the passage to answer the following question: "i can see no reason to doubt but the imposition of taxes, whether on trade, or on land, or houses, or ships, on real or personal, fixed ort floating property, in the colonies is absolutely irreconcilable with the rights of the colonists as british subjects and as men. i say men, for in a state of nature no man can take my property from me without my consent: if he does, he deprives me of my liberty and makes me a slave." —james otis, 1763 who is the main audience otis is writing to in this excerpt?

The correct answer is “the members of the Constitutional Convention”

James Otis wrote these pamphlets that started to circulate in many cities. He condemned the Sugar Act because he believed that colonists had no representatives in Parliament and this way, they could not be taxed for the purpose to raise money. His arguments gave rise to the expression “no taxation without representation”.

just finished the exam and the answer is NOT: The members of the Constitutional Convention

the main reason that the constitution did not proclaim all men to be free and equal is because of the issue of slavery.