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I agree it sounds absolutely absurd - first time I heard about it I couldn’t believe it. The Wikipedia page has more on the rationale, good or bad: https://en

• meroes 2y ago
  I like how the first two paragraphs under the intro (History) is basically outlining how the British doing it to American colonists was a catalyst for violent revolution to come… …and then the third is describing how American courts immediately recreated the laws with these inspirations to increase their budgets.