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Show [60] [61] your Reafons in fupport of your Opinions, {'0 far as you might difler from me. I hoped that you would have confidercd my Speech by your joint Committees, and have iven me a joint An- fwer ; but. as the Houfe of cprefentarives have, with the Lords and Commons, for I lhould very readily have allowed it ; and I lhonld as readily have allowed that all other Afts of Legiflation mufl: he pall'ed by the lame joint Authority, and not by the King alone. declined thatMode of Proceeding, and as your Principles in Government are very different, I am obliged to make l‘eparate and dillinfi replies. Indeed, _I am not willing to continue a Con» troverry with you upon any other Parts of your Anfwcr. I am glad to find that Independence is what you have not in Contemplation; and I {hall firfl apply tnyfelf to you, that you will not preliime to prefcrihe the exact Gentlemen of the Council, Limits of the Authority of Parliament ; only, as with due Del‘erence to it, yon are humbly of The two firll Parts ofiyourAnlwcr, which Refpee‘t the Dilbrders occafioned by the StampAél and the general Nature of Supreme Autho- Opinion, that, as all human Authority in the Nature of it is and ought to be limited, it cannot rity, do not appear to me to have a Tendency to conflitutionally extend, for the Realons you have fitggellcd,t0 the levying of Faxes in anyFottu on invalidate any Thing which 1 have laid in my his Majeliy's Subjects of this Province. Speech ; for, however the Stamp-Act may have been the immediate Occafion of any Diiorders, the Authority of Parliament was notwithllandmg I will only oberve, that your Attempts to draw a Line as the Limits of the Supreme Authority denied in Order tojuiiify or excufe them. And, in Government, by dillinguifliing fome natural for the Nature ot' the Supreme Anthority of Rights as more peculiarly exempt From {itch Ans tharity than the red, rather tend to evince the Itnprdélicabilityof drawing litch a Line ; and Parliament. I have never given you any Reaion to hippo": that I intended a more ablblute Pow- er in lz'arliament, or a greater Degree of ae‘live or pallive Obedience in the People, than what is iounded in the Nature of Government, let the Form of it be what it may. I lhall, therelore, talk over thole Parts of your Anfwer without any other Remark. I \VOlllLl allo have laved you the 'l‘ronb'e oi~ all thole Authorities which that lome Parts of your Anlwcr {coin to infer a Supremacy in the Province at the fame Time that you acknowledge the Supremacy of Parlim ment, for otherttife the Rights 0F the Subjects cannot be the fame in all elil'ntial Refpet‘ts as you litppoie them to be, in all Parts of the [70° minions, " LllLin a like Form of Legiflature." you have brought to lhew, that all Taxes UN" 1- nohi'h .‘jnhi‘r (is ll'tllil he levied by Virtue "if [l'C Adi lit‘i'td‘illli Knig alone but in Ct'ttjtttflton i will} u ‘ I e: From trt‘fe, therefore, and other Conlitzeram Om I cannot help flattering myleli, mat, 11;"031 more- |