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Show l. 15 l [ l7 ] Property flowing; from it, to Gitemzd Cmpztthe be eenied. of the-Corni'nous oi x‘]!fi€}'16(l, By their Conftitutions of Government, the Colonies are impowered to impofe internal Taxes. This Power is compatible with their Depend-ance, and hath been exprelly recognized by Briti/ly Min-if'ters and the Brit/[b Parliament, upon man Oeealions; and it may be exerciletl efleétually at Britain, The Colonies are dependant upon Gre the-King, and the liiprenie Authority .Vt‘iiffid 1n be exereiled to Lords, and Commons, may J‘ultly nce, whenevei ida pei PSCLH'C, 0,. prelei've their Dre hority relults neeellin'y for that Pui'pole. 1 his Aut the Relation. from, and is implied in the Idea of es; for, iubhfting between Eng/mid and her Coloni s, the ion eel coniidering the Nature or human Arl ing Regu- Interior is'not to be truited With provid ality With lations to prevent his Rifing to an. Equ the Suhis Superior. But, though the Right pf vmg the perior to me the proper Meansfor preier ,.yet it Subordination of his Interior is adinitted ht to Rig does not necei‘farily follow, that he has a fes, leize the Property of his Inferior. when he plea or to command him in every 'I hung, hnee, in the epem 1,)egrees of it, there may very well exdt afD e dance and [,riy'wrioi‘zty, Without abiolute infill/ag and Slater}. In what the Superior may infig'b‘lf't/[y controul, or compel, and in what the Interior el our) ht to be at Liberty to aét without Contro or without itriking at, or impeaching, in any Ref- peét, the Superintendenee of the Brit/fl) Parlia- ment. May not then the Line be dii'tine‘tly and juftly drawn between fuch Aéts as are necefl'ary, or proper, for preferving or fecuring the Depen‘ dance of the Colonies, and fueh as are not necefc {ary or proper for that very important Purpofe B When the Powers were conferred upon the CoIonies, they were conferred too as Privileges and Immunities, and accepted as fuch; or, to {peak more properly, the Privileges belonging neceflhrily to Them as Brit/'ijubieets, were folemnly declar- ed and confirmed by their Charters, and They who iettled in America under the Encouraoement and Faith of thefe Charters, underf'tood, ngt only that They might, but that it was their Rig/.2; to exercile thofe Powers without Controul, or Prevention. In tion; and, thele being aleertaintd, the Meafure oi" Obedience, and Subnziiiion, and the Extent lome of the Charters the Dil‘tinflion is expreflEd, and the ftrongeft Declarations made, and the mofl; i'olemn AITur-anees given that the Settlers fhould not have their PrOperty taxed without their own Confent by their Reprefentatives, though their of the J‘Lll‘tllotlly and Superintendenee will be fet~ legiflative Authority is limited at the fame Time, tlie Coiiipullion, depends upon the Nature ot'_ )ependauce, and the Degree of the Subordina lit‘tl, V‘v'hen Powers, COl‘flpEEiblC'Witl‘l the Reik{ion ave-tween the Superior and inferior, have, by eg-tpreis Compact, been granted to, and accepted by thelatter, and have been, after thatCompae‘t, re- petitedly recognized by the tormen-XVhen They may be exei‘eiled elieftually upon every Oecafifiou without any liijury to that Relation, the Authority oi'the Superior eannotproperly interpofe; for, by the Powers V'eilLt‘tlin the Inferior, is the Superiorlimited. BY by the Subordination implied in their Relation, and They are therefore refirained from making Aé‘ts of Affembly repugnant to the Laws of EngJami, and, had the Dif'tinflion not been exprefibd, the Powers given would, haw; implied it, for, if the Parliament may 371' any Ciilie‘ interpoie, whe the Authority of thefioltmies is adequate 'ttorthe ' D "QC- |