taxation based on democratic consent
By that, I assume you mean the majority consenting to tax the minority?
No - back then it was the minority taxing the majority. Its only recently that the franchaise has been extended enough to include those without class or property. By recently I mean the 1800s.
Then you meant to say "taxation based on
the illusion of democratic consent," which is still going strong.
No I meant what I said. People fought to the death for this stuff - you may regard them as having been deluded fools but that doesn't mean it makes sense to re-write history so that only people who lived in the 1600s but had a 2103 perspective come out OK.