British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the... The life of George Washington - Page 186by John Marshall - 1804Full view - About this book
| 1853 - 514 pages
...a right in the people to participate in their legislative council; and as the English colonists are not represented, and, from their local and other circumstances,...Legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be pursued in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign,... | |
| William T. Young (of Michigan.) - 1853 - 492 pages
...,in the declaration of the Continental Congress of 1774, and • thus reads: The English colonists " are entitled to a free and exclusive power, of legislation...right of representation can alone be preserved in all • ces to which it owes its origin. All the clauses in the Constitution, and all the clauses out of... | |
| George White - 1854 - 750 pages
...a right in the people to participate" in the legislative council : and as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances...be preserved in all .cases of taxation and internal policy, subject only to the negative of their sovereigns, in such a manner as has been heretofore used... | |
| James Kent - 1854 - 714 pages
...were entitled "to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign." The colonies, from the earliest periods of the Union, being thus auspiciously formed, it was continued... | |
| George White - 1855 - 872 pages
...a right in the people to participate in the legislative council : and as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances...be preserved in all cases of taxation and internal policy, subject only to the negative of their sovereigns, in such a manner as has been heretofore used... | |
| George White - 1855 - 1006 pages
...a right in the people to participate in the legislative council : and as the English colonists nro not represented, and from their local and other circumstances...entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation, iu their several provincial legislatures, whore their right of representation can alone be preserved... | |
| Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...the fourth in the series of resolutions adopted by the Congress. It declared that the colonies were entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation...legislatures, where their right of representation could alone be preserved in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative... | |
| 1855 - 804 pages
...Congress of 1774 elaborates and enforces the same distinction. " The English Colonists," it was said, " are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures ... in all cases of taxation and internal polity. . . . But from the necessity of the case and a regard... | |
| William L. G. Smith - 1856 - 798 pages
...early as 1774, when the Continental Congress declared that the English colonists ' are entitled to free and EXCLUSIVE power of legislation in their several...preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, &c.' In that great struggle, the patriots who conducted it conceded to the British Parliament the authority... | |
| William L. G. Smith - 1856 - 800 pages
...early as 1774, when the Continental Congress declared that the English colonists ' are entitled to free and EXCLUSIVE power of legislation in their several...preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, &c.' In that great struggle, the patriots who conducted it conceded to the British Parliament the authority... | |
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