Question

1a) What does the phrase “general consent” in line 1 mean?

Answer 1

its referring to a majority vote. a majority of the population had to be okay with it.

Answer 2

Here, the explanation of what "general consent" means is needed

• The phrase "general consent" as used in line is means "collective acceptance or agreement".

• Collective acceptance means the majority of the population must agree for a tax.

• The whole population doesn't have to be there physically but the representative of each group of the population has to be present.

• The representative of each group of the population represent the interest of his people.

• All the Representatives will assemble at a particular time in a particular place and decide on a tax.

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