This politician wrote of how the government was not created to satisfy monarchs in his pamphlet The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this politician who argued for the power of representative governments in his A Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives. This Massachusetts Bay politician was struck by lightning in 1783.
ANSWER: James Otis Jr.
[10e] Otis is typically credited with introducing a phrase in which this action “without representation is tyranny.”
ANSWER: taxation [or taxing]
[10m] Otis wrote his Vindication of the British Colonies around the time he led this 1765 “Congress” named for this law, chaired by Timothy Ruggles. This law’s repeal was passed alongside the Declaratory Act.
ANSWER: Stamp Act [or Stamp Act Congress]
<Noah Sheidlower, American History>