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Show c i (13-) have acquired... They have not, by abandonmg their right in one legi llature, aequiu red a right to confiitute anot her than the multitudes in Lnglan : any more d who have no vote, have a right to ere& a Parliament for themlelves. 8; But whereas I formerly all owed, " In there is in the charter of any Colony, a> elaull: exe mpting them from taxes {or eve r, then they have a right to be 1b exemptedfl I allowed too much. For to fay, That the King can grant an exemption from 7. However the Colonies built a rig/.11 lo (2/! ibc‘ flaw/eyes granted [1mm by royal c/Jm'turs, orJIZL‘II,»1:({ to film by freer/rein! lawn, The firit claufe is- allowe d: they have certainly a right to all the pri vileges granted them by royal charters: (provided thofee privileges be eonfif'tent wit h the: Britifl‘i; tonttitution.) But as to the feeond there is a doubt: provincial law s privileges to individuals of themay grant provineeet But lurely no province can confer provinw (lial privileges on itfelf‘! Th right to all which the Kin ey have a g has given: them; but not to all which» they have given themtblves. the power of Parliament, is-tav ing in other‘ ivords, That One branch of the legi llature can grant away the power of the Others. This is to f‘ar from being. true, that it. there is in the charter of any Colony, a lam e ex-» empting them from taxes forever, yet unletis it were confirmed by an aét of the whole Legitlature, that elaule is void in itfelt} The King,r (to me the phrafe of the" law) was " deceived in his grant," as hav- ingr given. that which he had no right to> bellow. Of all tithC charters then it may be faith. Either they do contain tueh a elaute, or: they do not. If they do not, the-plea of Char-ter-exemption drops. A corporation can no mor e aflhme to .itl‘elf privileges which it had not before, than a man can, by his own a&« Mfume titles or dignities. Th and deed,. e legiflature or a colony may be compar ed to the vellry f‘f a large pariih : which may lay. a eels on 7 inhabitants, but flill reg ulated by the Y I aw: and which (whatever be its internal expenees) isfiill liable to taxes laid by fu- giLrior authority. If they do, al-i tho' the Charter itlelf fiends good, yet that elaul‘e of it, is null and void, as being con~ trary to the principles of. the Britiih Con-- fiitution.. 9, All that impartially confider what‘has been oblerved, mull readily allow, that the Englifli Parliament has undoubted right to' tax all the Englilh Colonies.. But \vhenee then is all this hurry and? 8. But. tumult P Why is America all in an uproar-5: |