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Show 164 ACTS RELATth Part II. Sec‘t.Vl. TO THE CJLONIFS. 165 with the wig/£72! of the proprietor, or chief ment, is no longer a part of their confli- governor, or of the afi‘ernbly, or (9} at} of tuti it. Such is the force of " the mi (ml parliament in England. " rig/1t; of mankind," and of ‘ the noble To pro '3, by argument, that a charter thus worded, does not withdraw the province from the fupreme power of parliament, with reipeé‘t to this particular mat~ " principles of Englifh liberty," that giilation, from it's hill exificnce/ 72;!!3 , becomes ) notwithilandin'r the e" b prels terms of the inflrument which forms ter of taxation at leafl, it would be an in- that lcgillgition, if not de faito, yet 6 fult on the reader's underllanding to attempt. The very words of the charter preclude all argument. It cannot be {up- " p;1jé*l/y free " and independent. 5) another of their refolntions titys it is " 07' LUIS/1f to or." polL‘d, that any alletnbly of Penfylmnia could be ignorant ofthis; and yet one of Upon the whole it appears, that ac- the privileges originally gran:- them is not athanied to afi‘ert, " that the erown to the colonies, hiary- " taxation of the people of this province " by any 01/157 par/6122 w/nzr/buwr, except " by the 'eprel‘entatives they annually " chute in aii‘embly, is unconllitntionall-é." So then the charter, which flipulates that they my! be taxed by the king and parlia- inent, '* See the proceedings in confequenee of the ilamp act prehxed to the Colltélion of Charters, and (H's/gs is exempted from taxation : all the other provinces are, as to this point, in the fame lituation as if no charter had been granted-The parliament may con- ititutionally tax them, provided the mode of taxation be Inch, as to create the fame relation bet-ween the Houfe of Comm ,ns and them, as between the Home of Com- mons and the inhabitants of Great Bri- p. to. M 3 tain. |