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Show 84 ACTS RELATING Part I. Seét. IV. TO TIIE Coromes. 85 by many undei‘l‘tood to mean. The term " body of repretbntatives" has by many been unclerflood to mean, a body of men cans, as with refpeét to the greater part chofen by the set/1012', or by a Hug/orig of the community. But it appears that there \Vith reliiec‘l; to the hill and molt material circuxnitance, it appears that modes of is no fuch body; the term therefore ap-- taxation 7121/3/25 ‘ e invented, which would pears to mean a body of men ehofen by a create that relation, that indivifibility of part of the community; but f0 circumfianeed and related to the left, that the}r interefis. cannot have or t/zz'Izé they have any feparate interefis oftheir own to purine, to the prejudice of the ref't. It appears that the houfe of commons fair'y concluded that/inn"; a mode of tax- does fland in thefe circumfiances, and under this relation to the inhabitants ofGreat Britain. habitants of America, liilijefis of Great Thele circumftances, and this relation9 iconfii't firfi in their being an a'i'fli-zu', it» condly in their being a try/z/ionziy body; ofthe inhabitants of Great Britain. And it has therefore been, we think, ation would he confiitutional. Becaufe the commons xx'ould, under thefe circumltances, ‘xert no other power over the in- Britain, than they can by the confiitution exert over mi" the other {ubjefls of Great Britain. To taxation therefore, under this mode7 and laltly, in their being themfelves a no eontlitutional objefiions can lie but inch as are drawn either from the exprefia part ofthe perfons taxed, at the fame time words or neeellltry implication or ancient that they are the [raw/"r. The two firit ol' thefe cireumflanees are uniform t'qgtally true with relpet‘l t0 the Ameri~ conl'truétion of the original charters. Can fuch objeétions be drawn from thence? cans, G1; a pART |