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Who is most famously associated with the phrase "taxation without representation is tyranny"?
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James Otis Jr.
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James Otis Jr., a Massachusetts lawyer and colonial rights advocate, is most famously associated with the phrase. The idea helped frame colonial objections to British taxes before independence, but it predates the Boston Tea Party rather than coming from that event.
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Sources: constitutioncenter.org, U.S. National Archives