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Show 104. POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. 105 have chofen any Reprefentatives, and thetefore before any Allembly of 'fuch Reprefentatives can you really imagine, that he could crumble the parliamentary Authority and Jurifdiétion, could have pofiibly met,-to whofe Laws, and To the Englifl; mof't undoubtedly; for you could were he f0 minded, into Bits and Fragments, by afiigning one Parliament to one City or County, another to another, and f0 on? Is it poliible, I have been fubjee‘t to no other. You were fay, for you to believe an Abfurdity fo grofs and Englzflzman yourfelves ; and you carried the Englifli Government, and an Engliflz Charter over along glaring? And yet grofs and palpable as this Abfurdity is, you mufi either believe it, or adopta with you. This being the Cafe, were you not then in the fame Condition, as to Confiitutional {till greater, viz. that, though the King cannot Rights and Liberties, with the ref: of your do them all in flmerica ; becaufe the Royal Prerogative, like Wire coiled up in a Box, can be firetched and drawn out to almofi any Length, to what legiflative‘Power were you then fubjeé‘t? Fellow fubjeé‘ts, who remained in England? Certainly you were. I molt cordially agree, that you ought not to have been placed ina worfe; and furely you had no Right to expeét a better. Suppofe, therefore, i that the Crown had been f0 ill advifed, as to have granted a Charter to any City or County here in England, Pretending to exempt them from the Power and Jurii‘diétion of an Engli/n Parliament,»what would the Judges P What would the Lawyers P nay, what would you flmerz'can: have laid to it? Apply this now to your own Cafe; for furely you cannot wilh to have it put upon a fairer Footing; try, therefore, and fee, and then tell me, is it poflible for you to believe, that the King has a Power vef'ted in him by the do thefe firange Things in England, yet he can wn.‘"\l‘l\Ul\I-l|' , -. , T , according to the Difiance and Extent of his Dominions. Good Heavens ! what a fudden Alteration is this! An American pleading for the Extenfion of the Prerogative of the Crown? Yes, "if it could make for his Caufe -, and for extending it too beyond all the Bounds of Law, or" Reafon, and of Common Senfe! BUT though I have for Argument's Sake, and merely to confute you in your own Way, here fuppofed, that the Crown had been fo ill-advifed, as to grant Charters to the Colonies f0 unconfiitutional and illegal, as thefe undoubtedly mul't have been ~,---yet the Fact itfelf is far otherwifef" ; or ‘ * ~ Conf'titution of dividing his Kingdom into feveral independant States, and petty Kingdoms, like the Heptarchy in the Times of the Saxon: ? OI" can * Cur former Princes claimed a Right, and fre uently fixerufed the Power of levying Taxes, without the onfent of |