Who first said “Taxation without representation is tyranny”?

No one knows for sure who first said “Taxation without representation is tyranny”.

Lawyer James Otis is often credited with having coined the phrase in 1761, but the evidence for that is shaky.

The exact words did not appear in print until 1820, when John Adams recalled them in some notes.

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