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Show therefore follows, that there is no need, that the Deputies, particularly elected by them, {hould give their perfomzl Cor/fem to any Acts of the Legiflature; becaufe a Vote of the Majority is in fact a Vote of the Nation to all Intents and Purpofes. BUT it is now high Time to attend to another Part of this Gentleman's Plan for admitting Commiffioners from the Colonies to {it and vote in the Brit/fl; Houfe of Commons. " Colony to trani‘act among theatrelves, unlefs " in Cafes where the domcf'tic Difi‘entions of the " tion of the fupreme Legillature. at Surely the Nflliml might have expelled Mr. VVILKES, (,ale, the Nation in general, or the County of Mind/W ? ) its:4 I'M; V , " leir, or any other fuch general Purpol‘e, or " any new Law was to be made to regulate the " Trade of all the Colonies, or to appoint the " or of Great-Britain, fliould be 'ccoveretl, or 01' have {truck his Name out of the Lill of Committee: {0 to do. had It been "fibmblCd, and had it thought proper What then {hould hinder the Deputies of the Nation from to prevail in this dplng the fame Thing ? And which ought I " any general Tax was to be impofed upon all " the flmericmz Colonies for the Srzppyn‘ of a mifiion, and indeed the boundary Line pl‘efcribed For it feems (lee y But when AND that is, 2dly, the Extent of their Com- interfere in xii/"26mm; Affairs. .rv, i‘lukin "Colony put a Stop to public Btifinels, and " created a Kind of Necefiity for the Interpoli- " Methods by which Debts owing from the In~ " habitants of one Colony to thole of another, to the BMW Parliament itfelf, whenever it {hall v 4 .4 "left to the Governor and Aflembly of that ‘ thofe Deputies, whom they did not perlonally elect, as they are by thofe whom they did; it Colony (fuch as railing the riecefiitry Taxes for the fupport of its civil Goverment, and pallingLawsforbuildingBridges,orChurches, or Barmrkr, or other public Edz'fices) flrould be 845. Remark at prcfent, viz. That as each Clais of Men, each Society or Difiriét, throughout the Brit/fir Empire, are as much reprefented by " " " " .y . mons) yet I {hall content myfelf with one general " (afloat afgrezzt Nc'rrfl/y. Whatever related to " the internal Government of any particular " to clire€t the Manner of bringing Criminals " to Juilice who have tied from one Colony to " another, or to fettle the Manner of quar- " tering the King's Troops in the l'cv/eml Co" lonies; or of levying Tr‘oOps in tht n, and " the Number each Colony {liould contribute; " or to little the proportionable ‘valLlCS of diffe_" rent Coins that ihould be made current in the f‘ fever-a} Y 3 f‘ ExpulfiofiK of a Member of the Houfe of Com- 5‘ ment fliould be exercifed butfeldom, and on Or- n. 'U‘Qv‘r ‘_‘-<__ plexed (and particularly in the Cafe of the P, 14) " That this legiflative Power of Parlia- r. remove thofe Difliculties, with which the Subject has of late been artfully and ftudioufly per- . ,1 [ I73 ] [ I72 '1 |