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Show 66 ACTS RELATING V Part I, voters are nearly three fourths of the Sec}. 115. to THE (3111113111119. earris; into execution. Whole mats of citizens. \itr'itii what {Lice its L111‘ele11t 1:1eian1‘1..1oiV' [irate de- {ere then the maxim fails; it is n t are. eile11ti11l to the charaéter of a freeman .. ho r The Whole ialnic 01 111,23 1) 3.11111 {1'0- , all the abfurdities V111i1 V»lliCi. is to contribute to a tax, that he have a it tee1ns, are right of voting for his reprefentative. of this veiy piineinle; that no iUlJJCfl.‘ The the natural conieqtzence greater part of the iiibjCC'iS ofiingiand, fhould obey a law, though they contribute to taxes, have no is not impofed by his own free eon- right of voting for their reprefentatives. fent, given by himfelf or his reprefentative. Nor even of thole who [171178 a right to vote can it with any degree of truth be or pay a tax, which Yet this principle, pregnant with fuch affirmed, that their own pcrlonal content, fatal confequences, have or the perfonal confent of their reprefen- i'i'ieiids of America chofen as a ihield to tative is necefi‘ary to render a tax legal. proteét the colonies againfi: the power of if it could, it would follow, that no 7‘"- the Britiih legiflature. jnujivztut/w could be chofen but by the the fame xtravagance laid down as t1e zzizmzz'fimm content of every cwz/iiz‘xmt, corner Ptone of Britith y'7'592.'7:.=:2. that no law could "tats Without the 217122727- mam content of evcry 21 ‘1717l722‘;an Here too, thank heaven, the maxim fails. There exiits2. countrV, if111<eed Poland can be {aid to exill, where ti‘.5 idea or l‘er- 1111111 indhidual co11111t was adopted and carried many of th- This principle has Still however 11'e are told, " repit{7‘11- " ration and taxation are inf-emrable." All: for proofs, penons wage the number not reptef‘ item and yet of taxed, yo11 may pus7.1:, but you xvii not con- Vince. One |