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Set‘t.VllI. 188 ACTS RELATING TO THE COLONIES. 189 Part U. "Wade/2t upon, England, and 1mm ever it is then clear that the Parliament at " fince the planting thereof firm, and orig/1t z/mt time thought they had a right to lay " 20 (9c, jixéjcfl to fuch [(1205, orders, and any tax they {aw fit on the Americans. " regulations as are, or flmfl be made by If they had not a general right to lay taxes, they could not have a right to allix " the Parliament of Englant ." This declaration is {trong and pointed. certain conditions to a general exemption But " no precedent (we are told *) can be from taxation; much lel‘s could they have a right to adopt the particular mode of " drawn from this period." The region affigned for this all‘ertion is, that "the taxation prefcribed by this ordinance; a " Parliament ac‘tedhcre, not as Lrgflature, mode of all the leaft expentive, it is true, but which is generally confidered as of all " but as Sovereign:" if therefore "the " King could not legally exercife fuch the molt dangerous to liberty. In the year 1650, an act was patl to "powers over the Colonies, confidering " the inherent, Izrz'z‘m‘zzl', and efiablilhed prohibit all trade with Barbadoes, Virgi" rights of the colonif‘ts, we may, a for~ nia, Bermudas, and An ego *. " tiori, doubt the rights of thefe powers The preamble to this 2181 lets forth, " in the two houfes, called Mm the Farm that " in Virginia, and divers other " placesin A merica,there are Colonies and " liament, ai‘ting as Sovereign," It is not perhaps at firfi fight eafy to " Plantations, which were planted at [/13 underf'tand the diliiné‘tion here intended " cqfl, and fettled by the peep/e, and by between " Sovereign" and " Legiflature." " the rial/lorry of this nation; which 4m", From the context only we are led to con- " and 0113/2! to bejizrfian/lizar'r to, and de*" See Adminiflrarion cf the Colonies, vol. ‘* See Scobel's AE‘ts, p. 126. Ch. 28. elude " {Jr/taint |
