A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hilsborough, on the Present Situation of Affairs in America: In which the Arguments in Favour of the Colonies, are Placed in a New Point of View, and Their Rights and Privileges are Incontestibly Demonstrated on Constitutional Principles, Supported by Unanswerable Arguments Drawn from Their Ancient Original Charters, and the Circumstances Attending Their First Settlement. Together with a Serious and Impartial Consideration of the Consequences which Must Necessarily Result from the Exercise of Coercive Measures, to Compel Them to a Submission to the Late Acts of Parliament. Also an Appendix in Answer to a Pamphlet Intituled, The Constitutional Right of Great-Britain to Tax the Colonies. [Two Lines in Latin]London: printed, Boston: re-printed, and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street, 1769 - Constitutional right of the legislature of Great Britain to tax the British colonies - 55 pages |
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Page 5 - Merchandises, at any time or times hereafter, either upon Importation thither, or Exportation from thence, into our Realm of England, or into any other of our Realms or Dominions...
Page 13 - ... be received and allowed in all our courts, and before all the judges of us, our heirs and...
Page 6 - the people of Virginia shall have a free trade, as the people of England, to all places and with all nations?.
Page 11 - ... rates and taxes upon the eftates and perfons of all and every the proprietors and inhabitants of the faid province or territory...
Page 39 - ... can command anything, and hang for the least disobedience. Because such a blind obedience is necessary to that end for which the commander has his power, viz., the preservation of the rest; but the disposing of his goods has nothing to do with it. 140. It is true governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit every one who enjoys a share of the protection should pay out of his estate his proportion for the maintenance of it.
Page 13 - Other taxation, rate, or contribution what foe vcr, in and upon the dwellers and inhabitants of the aforefaid province, for their lands, tenements, goods, or chattels', within the laid pro* vince, or in or upon any goods or merchandife within the faid province, or to be laden, or unladen, within the ports or harbours of the faid province.
Page 38 - ... have property, without which they muft be fuppofed to lofe that, by entering into fociety, which was the end for which they entered into it ; too grofs an abfurdity for any man to own. Men therefore in fociety having property^ they have fuch a right to the goods, which by the law of the community are...
Page 31 - ... to and denial of the authority of Parliament, and to fubvert the true principles of the conftitution...
Page 13 - Contribution whatfoever, in and upon theDwellers and Inhabitants of the aforefaid Province, for their Lands, Tenements, Goods or Chatties within the faid Province, or in and upon any Goods or Merchandizes within the Province, or to be laden or unladen within the Ports or Harbours...
Page 5 - The country was to be united to the realm of England in perfect league and amity, was to be within the allegiance of the crown and to be held by homage and the payment of one fifth of all gold and silver ore.