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In writing about the Revolutionary War, should you capitalize central slogans and themes like "no taxation without representation"?

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It depends on what you mean by capitalize. I'd say you should follow the normal rules of punctuation, unless you have reason to think that the context of the a particular historical even would make it more correct to do otherwise. A slogan such as "No taxation without representation" would generally rate at least one capital letter.

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