Candid thoughts; or, An enquiry into the causes of national discontents and misfortunes since the commencement of the present reign |
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Page 24 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 42 - Parliament), and (hall engage to make provifion alfo for the fupport of the civil government, and the adminiftration of juftice, in fuch province or colony, it will be proper, if fuch propofal...
Page 41 - ... adopted, for reducing it to a state of obedience to lawful authority, is of a more delicate and important nature, and requires more precise and particular instructions. With this letter you will receive an Act of Parliament, passed in the present session, for discontinuing the loading and unloading of goods and merchandise at the town and within the harbour of Boston ; and also a Minute of the Treasury Board, containing the substance of such instructions as their lordships have thought fit to...