Virtual Representation Was the Idea

question 107

Multiple Choice

Virtual representation was the idea

• A) that only those who were elected by a given population could represent that population in a legislative body.
• B) about representation that most politically active American colonists in the 1760s and 1770s championed.
• C) that Parliament had always had complete sovereignty over the king.
• D) that each member of Britain's House of Commons represented the entire empire, not just his own district.
• E) that the king should appoint delegates to represent the colonies in the British House of Commons.

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