Virtual representation meant that
A) almost all British subjects were fully represented in Parliament and elected by British colonial subjects throughout the British Empire.
B) every member of Parliament represented all British subjects everywhere including in the American colonies.
C) colonists could elect their own representatives to Parliament.
D) Parliament could pass virtually all types of legislation affecting British colonies, without assent from colonial legislatures, except taxation legislation.
E) each member of Parliament represented only people in his parliamentary district.

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Virtual representation was the idea that members of Parliament represented all British subjects, including those in the American colonies, even if they did not elect them directly.

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