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Show [ 24 ] [ 25 l more qflértion on one port, at the making for the privileges which the Parliament of which, the perfons moft materially concerned on the other part were neither HEARD, nor reprefinted! adefeét (23) the molt notorious that can poflibly be attri- 5' '1 l buted to any proceeding, either in the cnnfiing or execution ofLaws ! and therefore it is to very little purpofe to cite the {aid Aét as a Precedent for taxing the American Subjects wz'tbom‘ z‘brz'r Con/Em: ; for 3 v II IIICUIIIIH m «in .. IJAUJ . than it could poflibly have been made by any other means: and the inhabitants of both iflands (thouah fprung from a variety of jarring, jealous, and fierbce nations) have, by thefe means acquired a certain mu- tualmyz'demtion for each other, as fil/owfioj'ggz; which could never have been produced by mere alliances nor, Perhaps b, guaranteeS, or defenfive leagueS, any other mode of government whatever, than, that); by which divine Providence has effected it - ‘viz th Englifli Confiitution: this has firmly united the Sn»; 1: of the two IflandS; whereby reciprocal fuccourngi time of need, is infured to both. ' n (23) u Q11 aliquid fiatuerit, part 6 inaud/ta alien: fr llcet mquum dixerit, baud (27241022 fecerit :" {0 that, ifany aé‘t 15 ever {0 lull in itfelf, yet it becomes ot/Jer' ‘u'l/t' (that 13, unjufl and iniguz‘tour, as is before re marked ) b'y tie l want ofthefe legal formalit' ies. i - of Ireland has maintained and enjoved, both before and fince that time, (clearly diPriné‘t and feparate from the Britiih Parliament,) anord a better and more authentic precedent on the other fla'e of the gut/Hon, (viz. in behalf of the peo- ple's natural Rights) than the Aét itfelf does againfl: them: for, as the King and the People (including the Lords and Commons) of Great-Britain confiitute the fowroz'gn Power (under God) or Legiflature of Great-Britain, fo the King and the People of Ireland are the natural and conftitutional Legiflature or State of that kingdom, and aétually exercife (both in Legifldtion and Taxation) their difiinft jurifdiétion, to this day 3 which is the bell proof of their Right: and, in like manner, according to this ancient and ef'tablifhed legal precedent, the King, together with the People of every dif- tinft province, fubjeét to the imperial E Crown |