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Show 18o POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL remove thofe Difficulties, with which the Sub SUBJECTS. 181 P- 14) " That this legiflative Power of Parlia- jeét has oflate been artfully and ftudioufly perplexed (and particularly in the Cafe of the " ment fhould be exercifed bntfeldo m, and on ()6" "MW" ofgredt Netefity. Whatever relat ed to Expulfion * of a Member ofthe Houfe of Com- " the internal Government Of any particular mons) yet I {hall content myfelf with one general " Colony (t'uch as raifing the necef fary Taxes for Remark at prefent? viz. That as each Clafs of Men, each Society or Diflriét, throughout the Britt/72 Empire, are as much reprelbnted by thofe Deputies, whom they did not perfonally elect, as they are by thole whom thLy did; it " the Support Of its Civil Governme nt, and " palfing Laws for buildingBridges,orChurch es, " or Barracks, or other public Edi/fut;} fhould be " left to the Governor and Ailembly of that " Colony to tranfaét among themfelves, unlels therefore follows, that there is no need, that the " in Cafes where the domef‘tic Dilfention s of the Deputies, particularly elected by them, lhould give their perform! Con/mt to any Aéts of the Legiflature; becaufe ,. Vote of the Majority is in fact a Vore of the Nation to all lntents and " Colony put a St0p to public Bulinei‘s, and " created a Kind of Necelhty for the lnterpofi" tion of the fupreme Legiflature. But when Purpoles. BUT it is now high Time to attend to another Pars or this Gentleman's Plan for admitting Cow millimter.» iron] the Colonies to fit and vote in we Lima/71 ; route of Commons. Ann that ls, 2diy, the Extent of their Commilhek, fmd indeed the boundary Line prefcribed to tht [>9 .rtz'flz Parliament itfelf, whenever it {hall "the [fitterz'can Colonies for the Support of (z " lVar, or any other luch general Purpole; or " any new Law was to be made to regulate the " Trade of all the Colonies; or to appoint the " Methods by which Debts owing from the In" habitants of one Colony to thofe of another, " or of Great-Britain, {hould be recovered; or " to direct the Manner of bringing Criminals For it feems (fee " t0 Jul'tice who have fled from one Colony to " another; or to fettle the Manner of quar- "‘ Surely the Nation might have expelled Mr. WILKES: " lonies; or of levying Troops in them, and " the Number each Colony lhould contribute; interlere lll xitticrz‘tmz Affairs. hee‘ "any general Tax was to be impofed upon all _ " tering the King's Troops in the feveral Coor have .lrucl; hi.~ Name out of the Lil't of Committee, had it. bee in zllElllblCd, and had it thought proper {0 t0 d0- WL ‘tl.e- illi'Pi hinder the Deputies of the Nation frotn doing rhr, mine Thing? And which ought to prevail in this Cale, the Nation in general or the County of Zlfid'fiffixfl . I4} " 01‘ to fettle the pmportionable Values of dill}" rent Coins that fhould be made current in the M 3 f‘ feveral |