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To: TimF who wrote (8529)	3/14/2001 6:38:57 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) of 82486

They thought they were not listented to or treated fairly and they had no representation in parliment. All true. And not ameliorated by the fact that nor did the colossal majority of their peers in England... at the time, as I recall, the vote was basically for landed gentry - only the men, if you please - and householders (property owners) in certain franchised boroughs. But there is an interesting 'what if'... what if the counsels of certain Whigs (one of the two British parties of the time) had been followed, and the American colonies as were had been given representation in Parliament? [the tax issue is somewhat misleading, in that the taxes which the UK sought to apply to the US were already applied at home...]. Would the War of Independence have been averted - IMO quite possibly? And, faced with a 'British US', would France have tried to keep the Louisiana territories instead of selling them (to the US) to raise funds to battle the UK? Hmmm. I'm not sure it would have been for the better, even from the British POV. <g>

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