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Show [92] [93] you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is the violent, and to aid the weal: and deficient, by the over-ruling,r plenitude of her power. She is never to intrude into the place of the others, to be. found, to-amy voice fails me; mv inclination indeed carries me no furtlier-alliis confu- hon beyond it. Well, Sir, I have recovered a little, and before whilft they are equal to the common ends of their inf'titution. But in order to enable parliament to I tit down I mutt fay fomething to another point anfwer all thefe ends of provident and beneficent With which gentlemen urge us. fuperintcndance, her powers mutt be boundlefs. The gentlemen who think the powers of parlia- \Vhat is to be- come of the declaratory ac} aflbrting the entirenels of Britifh legiflative authority, if we aban- don the praé‘tice of taxation? ment limited, may pleate themlclves to talk of For my part I look upon the rights dated in requifitions. But fuppofe the requititions are not obeyed? What! Shall there be no relerved power that act, eitaelly in the manner in which I viewed in the empire, to fupply a deficiency which may them on 1ts very firft propofition, and whichI have often taken the liberty, with great humili- ty,_ to lay before you. I look, I fay, on the im- weaken, divide, and diflipate the whole? We are engaged in war-the Secretary of State calls upon ‘ perial rights of Great Britain, and the privileges which the COlOlllllS ought to enjov under tlietl' rights, to be Juli the mott reeoncrleable things in the world. The Parliament of Great Britain‘iits at the head of her extenfive empire in two cara: crtiesz‘one as the local legitlature of this itlaiid the Colonies to contribute- tome would do it, I think mofi would chearfully furnith whatever is demanded-one or two, fuppofe, hang back, and eating themii‘lves, let the itrefs of the draft lie on the others-finely it is proper, that tome autho- rity might legally {ay-" Tax yourfelves for the " common fupply, or parliament will do it for provrdmg for all things at home, immediatelvi " you." and by no other infirument than the executive2 p0wer._--'l‘he other, and I think her nobler cu. actually the cafe of Penniylvania for tome ihort time towards the beginning of the lait war, 0w- ing to tome internal diflentions in the Colony. pale-Hy is what I call her imperial c/Jzsz'r'ert in This baclm'ardiiefs was, as I am told, winch, as from the throne of heaven, Ihe fiiperintends all the feveral inferior leO'iflatures and guides, and controls them all witihout aiinihi- But, whether the {aét were to, or otherwife, the lilting any. ordinary power; not ever uled in the tirfl in- fiance. This is what I meant, when I have {aid at various times, thatl conlider the power oftaxing in parliament as an inflrument iota empire, and As all thele provincial leeiflatures are only co-ordinate to each other, thev guoht all to he fiibordinate to her; ell}: tl ey dan iieither preferve mutual peace, nor hope for mutual juttiee, nor elteé‘tually afford mutual afiif'rance. It IS neeeflary to coerce the negligent, to reitrain I p the cafe is equally to be provided for by a connietent fovereign power. But then this ought to he no not as a means of fupply. ' Such, |