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.
Is that what you think? The first direct tax upon the citizenry of the new United States (as opposed to taxation of the states themselves) was the Whiskey Tax that resulted in the Whiskey Rebellion. That was a tax on distilled alchohol that directly affected the livelyhoods of less than 1% of the population.