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Show (5°) ( 5I whatfoever. He fays, " If any thing can he " drawn from fuch examples by a parity of the " cafe, it is to fhew, how deep their crime, " and how heavy their punifhment will be, " who {hall at any time dare to refif'c a dif'tant " Power, actually difpofing of their property, " without their voice or confmz‘ to the dfigfltion ;, " and overturning their Franchifes without " charge or hearing *." Here then is his aflertion, that America is not reprefented in Parliament; and his afTertion that Parliament has an unlimited legiflative Power over America in all cafes what/awe)", has been already fiated ;. which is a pofition as unaccountable to me, as it is new. But let me fee if fuch a polition is defenfible, and whether a queftio-n or two may not ferve as an anfwer thereto. The firf'c quefiion Iihall propofe is, whether Reprefentation in order to Taxation ) muf'r be the beredilary indifpenfible privilege of the Americans, as Britifh Subjeéts. From whence then can the Right to Parliament be derived of unlimited legiflative Power over the Subjefis of Great-Britain in all cafis "what/22w" without Reprefentation in Parliament, which the Americans do not pellets, as Mr. Burke has thewn; and which, in order to Taxation, is the 170‘?ditczry indilpenfible privilege of Britifh Subjeéts? I prefume it cannot be derived from the Conftitution; for no man will afiert, that the Conflitution gives a Right to Parliament to levy Taxes upon Britiih Subjeé'ts without Reprefentation; and if the Conftitution does not give this Right, the claim of it in Parliament mutt be uncmfliz‘utioml : which naturally brings me to the confideration of the dec‘laraz‘oryflc‘i‘, as falling under this point of View. Mr. Burke has proved that America is not reprefented; every wife man fays the fame; and it is only be not an hereditary indifpenfible privilege of jolly t/Je lafl that would afiert the contrary. the Britifh- Subjeft? The next queition is, Whether the Americans are Britifli Subjeé'ts or not if for if they are not Britifh Subjects, Great The declaratory Act declares, and Mr. Burke Britain has nothing, to do with them, no more than France, or Spain, or any other country has: And again, if they are Britifh Subjects, and Repr‘eléntation in order to: Taxation is the bereditary indifpenfible privilege of a Britifh Subject, Reprefentation in order to Taxation: ' Sec alfo Mr. Burke's Conciliatory Propofitions. mufl fupports the declaration, that this country has a right to bind America in all cafes 'wlacztfae'ver; and of courfe to tax America, though not re- 'p1‘efented. Upon thefe principles is it poflible to maintain this Act? It has no foundation. It ref'rs not upon the Conflitution. It is {ub- verfive of the Conflitution. It has not the fundamental requifites of a declaratory Law. No Law declaratory of Rights was ever before D 2 made, |
