The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches of the Most Distinguished English, Irish, and Scotch Parliamentary Speakers, from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I. to the Present Time, Volume 2Thomas Kirk, 1809 |
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... revenue , and duties imposed for the regulation of trade , for the accom- modation of the subject ; although , in the consequen- ces , some revenue might incidentally arise from the latter . The Gentleman asks , when were the colonies ...
... revenue , and duties imposed for the regulation of trade , for the accom- modation of the subject ; although , in the consequen- ces , some revenue might incidentally arise from the latter . The Gentleman asks , when were the colonies ...
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... revenue , as to extend the laws of excise , and open the doors of private men to the officers of the crown . Without entering into the right of taxing America , it was evident , that since the revenue expected to arise from that measure ...
... revenue , as to extend the laws of excise , and open the doors of private men to the officers of the crown . Without entering into the right of taxing America , it was evident , that since the revenue expected to arise from that measure ...
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... revenue , and that it is their intention to propose in the next session of parliament to take off the duties upon glass , papers , and colours , upon consideration of such duties having been laid contrary to the true principles of ...
... revenue , and that it is their intention to propose in the next session of parliament to take off the duties upon glass , papers , and colours , upon consideration of such duties having been laid contrary to the true principles of ...
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... revenue , engaged your troops , and openly violated the laws . Experience convinced you , that the juries of that , and of the counties similarly circumstanced , would never find such criminals guilty ; and upon the conviction of this ...
... revenue , engaged your troops , and openly violated the laws . Experience convinced you , that the juries of that , and of the counties similarly circumstanced , would never find such criminals guilty ; and upon the conviction of this ...
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... revenue than any other English county , as well as from this duchy being in the crown , and giving an amazing com- mand and influence . By such acts of our princes the constitution was wounded in its most vital parts . Henry VIII ...
... revenue than any other English county , as well as from this duchy being in the crown , and giving an amazing com- mand and influence . By such acts of our princes the constitution was wounded in its most vital parts . Henry VIII ...
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Page 346 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 299 - I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders...
Page 292 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Page 11 - House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented by any knight of the shire, in any county in this kingdom? Would to God that respectable representation was augmented to a greater number! Or will you tell him that he is represented by any representative of a borough ? a borough which, perhaps, its own representatives never saw! This is what is called the rotten part of the constitution.
Page 296 - ... their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made pack-horses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Page 299 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 300 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 297 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength, our opprobrium for their glory; and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom?
Page 10 - They are the subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural rights of mankind and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen ; equally bound by its laws, and equally participating in the constitution of this free country. The Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England.
Page 122 - that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.