In examining the Stamp Act, James Otis determined the main issue was not stamps but
a. taxation by parliament without colonial representation in parliament.
b. Parliament had chosen the wrong commodity to tax.
c. colonial efforts to resist representation in Parliament.
d. the time was ripe for revolution.
ANSWER: a
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