When the U.S. made Puerto Rico and the Philippines territories, two principles central to American democracy, “no taxation without representation” and “government based on the consent of the governed” were abandoned. How did the U.S. justify these actions? What were the consequences?

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No taxation without representation is a political slogan that originated in the American Revolution and which expressed one of the primary grievances of the American colonists against Great Britain In ... View the full answer