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Show I 9 ] the and from this Connefl-ion, relultino; 3 , Oppreiiion . . . I" .k' . ‘ E 3 l e. g. Rex, &c.--fl/[m~im, 8:". Sail/rem, &c. V0555, &c. Aiana'amm gym] aliqztem, or?! a/z'quor dc 91119225 confidm‘i: (quid IVL‘flfiZOfl. miner/5 (2d 1051116715111"; 270137]: cum fztpcr (iii/'1'; Negotiii, et m1 fmiendum e! [Wifllfla tz'ma'zmz Ncmiizc "qr/fro, fitper he; (1mm? ibidem ordinmzi caizlzgerzi‘. Necellity of imagining a double Oi Virtual lye- prefentation, to avmd IniqUity and Ablurdity9 have been explained-The Inhabitants or the Colonies are, as fur/9, incapable of hemp; Elefl‘ors, the Privilege of Elet‘lion being exercneable only in Perfon, and therefore it may Inhabitaat UL ‘1 ‘ . i. ~ 4 I '0'. y "L. xiii/mica, had the requifite Freehold, not 07.76 could A Reflection naturally arifes from the Infiances cited-When, on a particular Occalion, flame Individuals only were to be taxed, and not the whale Community, their Content 072/}: was called for, and in the lall Infiance it appears, that they, who upon an Occafion of a general Tax, would have been bound by the Cozrlent of their virtual Reprrflzrtm‘z'tw (for in that Cale they would have had no (162714! Reprefentm‘i‘vm) were in an Adair calling for a particular Aid from them, fipm‘aic from the reft or the Community, required to fend theirpartimi'm‘ Drpzztz'c'r : But how different would be the Principle of a Statute, impoling Duties without their Confent who are to pay them, upon the Authority of tbez‘r Gift, who fliould undertake to give: what doth no: belong to them. i. That great King, Edward I, inferred in his Writs of Summons, as a firlt Principle of Law, that quad owner [anger a!) Minibar: approbelzzr, which by no Torture can be made to fignit‘y that their to vote, but upon the Suppolition ol‘ n hisw cealing .3 ,. ‘ ' ' ' becoming a l\(.‘ and of‘ flmtrim, be an Inhabitant lident in Great-Britain, a Suppofition which would be in'ipertirient, becaule it lhiits the (Luellion-m Should the Colonies not be taxed by jar/251mm- z‘m‘y Impqfltz'ozir, their refpec‘tive Legiflatures ha e a regular, adequate, and eonltitutional Authority to Tax them, and therefore there would hotne- exemption, ceflitrily be an iniquitous and ~abfurd t] , Cy,r 7.0 "on/ft 1, 7. a ' m by from their not being repiefcnted Commons. ble ReThere is not that intimate 'nd inhepara lation between the E/efiorr 0f Great-Britai and mutt inethe Inhabitants 0f the Calamity, which non ,‘on axa vitably involve both in the iamefl in flang- the contrary, not a {ingle (sitting hleétor a laxalmzd, might be immedmtely alleéled by lCl] WOLlliLl tion in Aimrz'm, impofedby a Statute \I'lll ept, uppn the have a general Operation and inl'i Approbation or Confent Ufib' is to be required in {lilff-IITIPOfiClOl] of a Tax, who are to pay 310 Part nies. Properties of the Inhabitants or tneIC‘om ihouland The latter might be opprelTed in a ting any Shapes, without any Sympathy, or cxcx 0' it. Alarm in the former. The Situation of the Non-Electors iii Ezirrlzmd -their Capacu'y to become lilleetors~t heireinle~ para w ble _.Connxecti ‘ on with ma. ors,, _ [hole < who are I.,.c and their Repieicntativeswtheir Security againfi: O p- Moreover, even-ACTS, op- nies .in Van]??refiive and injurious to the Colo in [mg um , treme Degree, might become popular the very that from the Promife or Expectation, ed the (,olunies, would Meafures which deprefi L; ,3ch |