| Elbert Hubbard - 1903 - 50 pages
...give the meat of the matter: Resolved, That the general assembly of this colony has the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other... | |
| Washington Irving - American literature - 1905 - 572 pages
...his place, he introduced his celebrated resolutions, declaring that the General Assembly of Virginia had the exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants, and that whoever maintained the contrary should be deemed an enemy to the colony. The Speaker, Mr.... | |
| James Joseph McDonald - Virginia - 1907 - 424 pages
...as follows : " Eesolved, therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony, and that every attempt to vest power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - Biography - 1916 - 554 pages
...the meat of the matter: " Resolved, That the general assembly of this colony has the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other... | |
| John Holladay Latané - United States - 1918 - 702 pages
...BURGESSES in 1765 in support of his resolutions against the Stamp Act. colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other... | |
| Constitutional law - 1920 - 560 pages
...it was declared, among other things, that the general assembly of the colony had the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of the colony, and that every attempt to vest that power in any person or persons whomsoever other... | |
| Smith Burnham - United States - 1920 - 704 pages
...Virginia declared, Alarm in "That the General Assembly of this colony have the only and America sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony." It was in a famous speech in support of this declaration that Patrick Henry said,... | |
| William Henry Hudson, Irwin Scofield Guernsey - United States - 1922 - 778 pages
...characteristic of British freedom " ; that " the general assembly of this colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony " ; that " his majesty's liege people, the inhabitants of this colony," are therefore... | |
| Homer Carey Hockett - United States - 1925 - 470 pages
...Burgesses with resolutions declaring "That the General Assembly of this colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony." Supporting these resolutions, in a burst of that eloquence which made him famous as... | |
| University of Missouri--Columbia - Research - 1927 - 450 pages
...Burgesses, 1761-1765, pp. 360 (f. 37 "That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons other than the General... | |
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