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Show 228 Acrs RELATING Part II. Scfi. X. TO THE COLONIES. 229 If the right of fupremacy in general had never been Clo/mod till the commence- ment of the prefent contelt. the claim SECT.X.' Of the deference paid [1y the colonic: to r/io aut/zorily of Purl/mlmzf, and to Me regufitiom of Me Crown, prew'om to t/zc made at fo late a period, might with rea- fon be condemned as novel and unconditutional. If having long ago been excr- eifed or claimed, it had all along been oo/ztzflod, it might at leaft be looked upon reign of Iii: prefim‘ Mq/ufly. UCH of the acts of the 1:19: parlia~ as doubtful. If for a long continuance it had been claimed and exertzilEd, and the ment, as concern the prefent quef- tion, were aéts palled for enforcing {ubmillion to a claim aHer‘ted by the parliament preceding. The policy of the acts then mutt, in a great mealure, depend upon the policy of the claim. If that claim was unconltitutional, it unquel'tionably, upon that account, was impolitic. In fuch cafe thefe lafi aéts m ult be regarded as impolitic. But it might alfo, without being unconflitutional, be impolitic on other grounds: in this cafe too they [fill could not but be regarded as lmpOlitie, If colonies had oonlcnted/y fubmitted to it, till nanifelled in the particular article of in- ternal taxation; the exercife of it in fuch particular article might be open to cenfure, though not as unconilitutional, yet as impolitic. If not confining their reluc- tance to this particular mode of exerting it, or this particular time of its being ex- erted, they have gone on in a middle way, between open contellation, and contented obedience, the exerting of it in the particular mode, and at the particular time in quellion, {hould teem to have nothing in Q3 it |