Acknowledged english liberty forbade taxation without consent. He went further to say that any laws should not be imposed without British subjects' consent. He insisted that this did not include the Sugar act or the other Parliament acts and it did not affect the colonists because although they could not participate in government, most British subjects at home couldn't either. virtual representation (75% of of adult males could not vote because they din't own enough property, lived in towns not legalized to send members to colonies. But, he said that they were not really unrepresented because they had virtual representation because every member of Parliament was supposed to represent the whole empire. This was also a justification for the Stamp Act too.
