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Show 184 ACTS RELATING Part. II. Sect. VIII. TO THE Commas. 185 called for the firongefi, and molt manly eflorts to maintain them. S E C T. The acts we have already cited, are at once the plainel'c acknowledgements on the part of the Grantees, and the flrongeft allertions on the part of Parliament, that the charters were by neither underflood to have conveyed the powers, and exemptions, they are now pretended to have conveyed. VIII. W'fiat power 1/1217 Z/ze Przr/z'mlmzz‘ exercife our [/13 Comm: flow [/13 éegzmzmg qf i/ze Cruz! Iii/far to My Rcfloraiian ? U RI N G a great part of the period comprifed in this feilion, one or both of the Houfes of Parliament allumcd to themfelves the w/m/e power of all the three branchesof the legiflature; of King, Lords, and Commons. \Vere the prefent therefore a difpute between the King and the other branches ofthe Legiflature,touching the limits of the feparate powers each might refpcétively claim over the Colonies, all reference to ordinances pafi during this period WOuld be impertinent. But the queftion is, what power the whole Britifh Le- giflature, in whatever hands it be vefied, may conl'titutionally exert over the C010- nies: and to this qtiefiion, I apprehend the |