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Show up in errfm, Laws were made from Time to Time to weed them out, and to maintain the Au- thority and jurildietion of the Parent-State. This may be traced from To early a Period as the Reign of King V‘v'ILLIAM, when the Colo- "W; nies were hardly emerged from their Infant- "HUI;fill."1mm" {(-"I'l'lllllll'lm | ‘4 l; , D )1 I) ', I State; yet as lbme Symptoms of a rebellious 1,)i‘fpoiition began even then to appear, an ex4 pref: Law was made to dellroy every Pretence, and to obviate every future Subterfuge, which could poliibly be invented, for afi‘ertingr the Independence ofthe Colonies. And as this famous Law was made,--nOt in thefe vile, degenerate Times, when (accordir'rgr to modern Phrale)our Liberties lie bleeding, and all our Franchifes are at their laf't Gal‘p,---but in the patriotic Days of our glorious Defender King WILLIAM: And as this Ac‘t of Parliament is the mof't effecc tual, and [5317/ Confutation of the wild Preteniions, and exorbitant Claims of the prefent Con- grefs, that can be imagined,-v-inalinuch as it was made above 70 Years before thefe Repub- lican M‘eetings were in being;---I flIall therefore quote it once more, tho' I have mentioned - It V " HEREAFTER {hall be in Practice, or endea‘4‘ voured, or pretended to be in Force or Prac- " tice in any of the faid Plantations, which are " in any wife repugnant to the before-men" tioned Laws, or any of them, {0 far as they " do relate to the {aid Plantations, or any of " them, or which are any wife repugnant to tlns " prefent Act, or to ANY OTHER LAW nakelo " AFTER TO BE MADE IN THIS KINGDOM, " far as fuch Law {hall relate to, and mention AND " the laid Plantations, are ILLEGAL, NULL, WHA'T" VOID TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES 111. " SOEVER."---[See 7. and 8. of WILLIAM Ca ). . . . Third idol/fa: this Statute of WILLIAM the evidently undertakes tojullify the Conflztalwn}?! t, e Rig/z! of Parliament to make Laws to bind If the Colonies -,---it neceffarily' followsnthat, of CiEOR:i: late Stamp-Aét, and every other Act ready and the Third now complained Of, were oriégtnti i trulv no better than Ufarpmiom, this me from, Law, which pretended to auth Blames-"And ought to hav C borne the greatef't "1 be' l‘ou'nd to then the flmerz'mn Grievances wn flmarzcmzy tnembe of much older Date than the A , ‘ ‘ " iinQ‘ CO 3C" Selves, tor certain Ram": a": W} HI 2, J -l em» know 6 .- EULA A! Seeds of Difobedience were beginning to fprout " rity aforel‘aid, that all Laws, EyevLaxys, " Ufages or Cui‘toms, at this Time, or which V" ' I: trary, as foon as ever it was perceived, that the " further en's/fled, and declared by the Autho- my On the con- it twice already in the preceding Traits. " Be it ,4 .1, tions, or Colonies Of 11772377652. 27 "in Acts of Parliament ;---provided thofe Acts related to. and particularly mentioned, the Planta- PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS. iw V V" sterner #73331 W w WWW? " 26 PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS. cature, that 1121267220 was not bound by Eigll'flz |