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Show 102 SUBJECTS. POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL 103 Man either hath, or ought to have, or was in- LEAVING therefore all thefe fhifting, unflable Topics, which, likechangeable Silks, exhibit tended to have a Vote for a Member of Parliament? No, by no Means : The Conflitution different Colours, according as they are viewed ‘in dilferent Lights -, let us from the Spirit of the fays no fuch Thing.-~-But the Spirit of it cloth; :Conl‘titution, come to the Conl‘titution z'lfelf. For this is a plain, obvious Matter of Fact; and Matters 'of Fate are faid to be fiubborn that he ought not? Or doth it fay, that every and that is as good, perhaps better.---Very well: See then how the fame Spirit will prefently wheel about, and affert a Doé‘trine quite repugnant to the Claims and Pofitions of you flmerlram. Magaa C/zarta, for Example, is the great Foundation of Eng/2]}; Liberties, and the Bafis of the Eagli/lz Confiitution. But by the Spirit of Magaa C/zarla, all Taxes laid on by Parliament are maflilzttz'oaal, legal Taxes; and Taxes railed by the Prerogative of the Crown, without the Confent of the Parliament, are illegal. Now re- member, young Man, that the late Tax of Duties upon Stamps was laid on by Parliament; and therefore, according to your own Way of reafoning, muit have been a regular, conl'tituti- onal, legal Tax. Nay more, the principal End and Intention of Magaa C/zarta, as far as Taxation is concerned, was to allert the Authority and Jurifdié‘tion of the three Efiates of the Kingdom, in Oppofition to the fole Prerogative of the King : So that if you will now plead the Spirit of Magaa C/zarta againl'r the Jurifdiétion of Parliament, you will plead [Magaa Clzarta againlt itfelf. LEAVING Things. Now the firl‘t Emigrants, who fettled in America, were certainly Englzflz Subjects,- fubjeé‘t to theLaws and Jurifdiétion of Parlia- 'ment, and confequently to parliamentary Taxes, .lrfare their Emigration; and therefore fubyeét l afterwards, ‘unlefs fome legal, confiitutiona Exemption can be produced. Now this is the (luefiion, and the fole to a flluef'tion between you and me, reduced efore (plain, {imple Matter of Fact. Is there ther d any fuch Exemption as here pretended? .An - if you have it, (why do not you produce It? ters of j" The King, you fay, {hath granted Char : This " Exemption to the zimerlcan Colonies this wrll bring is now coming to the Point; and us therefore the Difpute to a {hort lflue. Let and con- .firf't enquire, Whether he could legally And fiitutionally grant you fuch a Charter? as at- fecondly, Whether he did ever fo much ters tempt to do it ? And whether any fuch Char are upon Record? ‘ ' . Now, upon the firll fettling an Eizglz/lz C0lfi‘lc‘am, clould lon)', and before ever you, All ' i ' ave ~--_\\l\\‘l\|)l\[l\l |