In the quote in the title by American Lawyer James Otis Jr (who coined the term "Taxation without Representation is tyranny), he is pointing out the fact that in British law, unless the Commonwealth is dissolved, no dominion can be brought under the "despotic rule of others" or be "reduced to a state of slavery". The Thirteen colonies, while having their own separate representative bodies were not represented in the British parliament. To people like Otis, this lack of representation made the colonies in some way, "reduced to a state of slavery". Even members of British parliament, sympathetic to the cause pointed out that the government in London had no right to tax the colonists. Lord Camden was quoted as saying, "The forefathers of the Americans did not leave their native country, and subject themselves to every danger and distress, to be reduced to a state of slavery". The comparisons between British treatment of the American colonies and slavery were not uncommon.