Colonists felt the increased taxes in the 1760s and 1770s violated which document?

Colonists argued that the new taxes violated their traditional rights as English subjects, including the principle that taxes could not be imposed without consent through their representatives. The English Bill of Rights helped establish that principle, so the correct choice is the English Bill of Rights. The other choices are not the document associated with this complaint: Common Sense was a later pamphlet, and the Mayflower Compact and Virginia Declaration of Rights addressed different matters.

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