They did something like that - they would defer decisions until they&#x27;d <i>heard</i> from the representative of the colony (the Governor?) In fact that was all the &#x27;representation&#x27; that the American colony wanted in that slogan &quot;No taxation without Representation!&quot; (perhaps the worst political slogan of all time?)  Just to be heard. Because our colony rep arrived a day or two too late to speak on the tea tax, designed to defray Britain&#x27; expenses for the defense of the Colony.<p>Ironically the representative would have spoken in favor! But because he was not heard at all (and his objection dismissed as irrelevant), that put colonists in the same bucket as slaves and women - those who were not heard in government. <i>That</i> was what was intolerable.