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" 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. "
Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: And ... - Page 330
by John Almon, William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1792
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Orations of British Orators, Including Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 23

1900 - 496 pages
...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 ! At the same time, this kingdom, as the supreme governing and legislative...
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Locomotive Firemen's Magazine, Volume 26

1899 - 808 pages
...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." Grenville voiced the Idea of the Ministry in his reply, wherein...
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William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the Growth and Division of the British ...

Walford Davis Green - 1901 - 488 pages
...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. ... If this House suffers the Stamp Act to continue in force, France...
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Britain over the sea, a reader compiled by E. Lee

Elizabeth Lee - 1901 - 302 pages
...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. At the same time, this kingdom, as the supreme governing and legislative...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 5

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 450 pages
...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! At the same time, this kingdom, as the supreme governing and legislative...
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The Story of Westminister Abbey: Being Some Account of that Ancient ...

Violet Brooke-Hunt - 1902 - 442 pages
...slaves of the rest. . . . The Commons of America have ever been in possession of their constitutional right of giving and granting their own money. They would have been slaves if they had not enjoyed it. ... A gentleman asks, 'When were the Colonies emancipated ? ' I...
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Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British ...

John Dickinson - 1903 - 232 pages
...their feveral aflemblies, have ever been u in pofleflion of this their conftitutional right of giv" ing and granting their own money. They would " have been flaves if they had not enjoyed it. The i" dea of a virtual reprefentation of America, in this " houfe, is the moft contemptible idea that...
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History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870

Lewis Preston Summers - 1903 - 932 pages
...Commons in America, represented in their several assembles, have invariably exercised this constitutional right of giving and granting their own money; they would have been slaves if they had not enjoyed it. At the same time this Kingdom has ever professed the power of legislative...
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The Historians' History of the World: England, 1642-1791

Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 710 pages
...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." Grenville replied to Pitt, and defended his Stamp Act: "When I...
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Chatham, Volume 2

Frederic Harrison - 1905 - 262 pages
...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. At the same time this Kingdom, as the supreme governing and legislative...
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