Editorial: The Boston Tea Party 250 years later, and we're still fighting for democracy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : There was already broad agreement in 18th century Britain and its American colonies that taxation without representation violated a supposedly free person's rights.
44% : Enslaved Africans and their descendants, Native Americans on reservations and women were represented in government in name only until recently, without voting power, the same way British Parliament once claimed to represent people who had no ability to say "yes" or "no" to their supposed delegates.
36% : A mercantile protest against tax breaks and corporate welfare for a private but influential monopoly (the British East India Co.) became a blow against the entire panoply of legislation and taxation adopted to coerce loyalty to the crown and Parliament.
36% : In observing the semiquincentennial of the Boston Tea Party, it's important to recall that although it began as an anti-tax protest, it was ultimately about the true meaning of representative government.

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