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Show '[IO] its Authority becaufe they cannot enjoy this par- ticular Right? Will it not rather be {aid that, [It] Acknowledgment of it which I think Will well by this their voluntary Removal, they have re- deferve their Confideration.‘ ' I' know of no Line that can be drawn between the fupreme Autho~ _ linquilhed for a Time at leafi, one of the Rights rity of Parliament and-the total Independence of of an Englithubjeft which they might if they pleafed have continued to enjoy and may again enjoy whenfoever they will return to the Place where it can be ‘exercifed ? They who claim Exemption, as Part of their the Colonies: It is~impoflible there fhould be ‘ two independent Legiflatnres in one and the fame State, for althoug‘h'there may be'but one Head, the King, yet the! two Legiflarive Bodies will make two Governments as diliiné‘t as the Kingdoms of England and Scotland before the Union. Rights by Nature, fltould confider that every Reflraint which Men are laid under by a State of Government is a Privation of Part of their If we might be fitfered to be altogether inde. natural Rights, and of all the different Forms which we are no longer a Part? Without this ofi-Govcrnment which exifl, there can be no two of them in which the Departure from Natural Rights is exactly the fame. Even in Cafe of or- the other Powers of Europe. {uch as fnould Reprefentation by Election, do they not give up Part of their natural Rights when they confent . to be reprefented by fltclt Perfon as {hall be chofen by the Majority of the Electors, although ‘ thetraown Voices may be for fo‘me other Perlbn 3 And tstt not contrary to their natural Rights to be obliged to fubmit to alReprefentative for fe- pendent of Great-Britain, could we have any Claim to the Proteélion of that Government of Protection fhould we not become the Prey of one firfl feize 'upon us 1' Is there anyThing which we havemore Reafon to dread than Independence ? I hope it will never be our Misfortune to know by Experience the Difference between the Liber- ties oFan Englilh Colonifi and thofe of the Spanilh, French or Dutch. ' ' ven Years, or even one Year, after they are dill "then the Supremacy of Parliament over the , whole Britifh Dominions {hall no longer be de- latisfied with his Conduct, although they gave nied, it will follow that the mew: Exercife ofits. their Voices for him when he was elected ? This Authority can be no Matter of'Grievance. Ifit has been or {hall he exercifed in {itch 'Wav and mull therefore be confidercd as an Objection agamfl a_State of Government rather than aga infl any particular Form. .If what I have laid {hall not be litflicient to {5"er inch as object to the Supreme Authority Of Parliament over the Plantations, ther [ometlnng further be added to induce theme may to an Acknowledgment Manner as {hall appear to be grievous, flill this cannot be fuflieient Grounds for immediately denying or renouncing the Authority or refuting to iuhmit to it The A83 and Doings of Autho» rity in the molt perfect Form ofGovernment will not always be thoughtjull and equitable by all y the Parts of which it confilts, but it is the grgearefl B a ' 'Abi‘urdit‘y |
