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How did some Colonial leaders protest the Townshend acts?

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The colonists protested, “no taxation without representation,” arguing that the British Parliament did not have the right to tax them because they lacked representation in the legislative body. Colonists organized boycotts of British goods to pressure Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.

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