Political DebatesChez J.W., imprimeur, 1766 - 18 pages |
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... yourselves were to be bond , or free . In the mean time , as I cannot depend upon health for any future day , fuch is the nature of my infirmities , I will beg to fay a few words at prefent , leaving the juftice , the equity , the ...
... yourselves were to be bond , or free . In the mean time , as I cannot depend upon health for any future day , fuch is the nature of my infirmities , I will beg to fay a few words at prefent , leaving the juftice , the equity , the ...
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... yourselves : rights which they will claim , which they will exercife , when ever the principle can be fupported by POWER . " There is an idea in fome , that the colonies are virtually reprefented in this houfe . I would fain know by ...
... yourselves : rights which they will claim , which they will exercife , when ever the principle can be fupported by POWER . " There is an idea in fome , that the colonies are virtually reprefented in this houfe . I would fain know by ...
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... yourselves were loaded with an enormous debt , you have given bounties on their lumber , on their iron , their hemp , and many other articles . You have relaxed , in their favour , the act of naviga- tion , that palladium of the British ...
... yourselves were loaded with an enormous debt , you have given bounties on their lumber , on their iron , their hemp , and many other articles . You have relaxed , in their favour , the act of naviga- tion , that palladium of the British ...
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... yourselves , now the whole houfe of Bourbon is united against you ? While France difturbs . your fisheries in Newfoundland , embarraffes your flave trade to Africa , and with - holds from your fubjects in Canada , their property ...
... yourselves , now the whole houfe of Bourbon is united against you ? While France difturbs . your fisheries in Newfoundland , embarraffes your flave trade to Africa , and with - holds from your fubjects in Canada , their property ...
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Page 7 - The commons of America, represented in their several assemblies, have ever been in possession of the exercise of this, their constitutional right, of giving and granting their own money. They would have been slaves if they had not enjoyed it.
Page 4 - I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast that I was the first minister who looked for it, and found it, in the mountains of the North.
Page 15 - I will be bold to affirm, that the profits to Great Britain from the trade of the colonies through all its branches, is two millions a year. This is the fund that carried you triumphantly through the last war. The estates that were rented at two thousand pounds a year, threescore years ago, are at three thousand at present. Those estates sold then from fifteen to eighteen years purchase; the same may now be sold for thirty.
Page 13 - Wales, that never was taxed by Parliament till it was incorporated. I would not debate a particular point of law with the gentleman. I know his abilities. I have been obliged to his diligent researches. But, for the defence of liberty, upon a general principle, upon a constitutional principle, it is a ground on which I stand firm — on which I dare meet any man.
Page 7 - ... except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 5 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Page 16 - Has anybody any objection to the German war? Nobody would object to it, one gentleman only excepted, since removed to the Upper House by succession to an ancient barony...
Page 15 - Exchequer, by the loss of millions to the nation ? I dare not say how much higher these profits may be augmented. Omitting the immense increase of people by natural population, in the northern colonies, and the...
Page 10 - British commerce ; and yet I have been abused in all the public papers as an enemy to the trade of America. I have been...
Page 14 - I would advise every gentleman to sell his lands, if he can, and embark for that country. When two countries are connected together like England and her colonies without being incorporated, the one must necessarily govern. The greater must rule the less ; but so rule it, as not to contradict the fundamental principles that are common to both.