When American colonists protested the idea of taxation without representation, what Enlightenment idea were they demonstrating? that people must have a say in the laws that they follow that government should be separated into three branches that people should be free to worship as they wish that government must obey the same laws as its citizens

Why were presidents andrew jackson and martin van buren unwilling to annex texas? a. they did not want texas to be admitted to the union as a slave state. b. they feared that the annexation of texas as a slave state would lead to political problems within the union. c. they thought that texas was too large to be admitted to the union as one state. d. they did not believe in the idea of manifest destiny.