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Show [3] t 9 1 Britain-anti, confe‘qnently, the Afts of Parlian‘m" Cotoayt rotairt the Liberties and Irht'nunitiesof cannot be binding upon them. free and natural Siibjeéts, their Removal from or nOt being Born within the Realm notwithfland- I (lo'nnt find, Gentlemen, in the 5'" ing. If the Plantations Be Part of the Dominion: of the crown, this" Claure in the Charter an Exprethon asfy/e Power or any V import it. The General Court ha ‘ does not confer or referVe any Liberties but what Would have been enjoyed without it and What the Inhabitants of every otherColony do enjoy where they are without a Charter. If the Plantations site nor the Doniinions‘ of the Crown will not all ft}! Power to make fiteh Laws as my mitt tothe Lnutsoffing'and. A the . {irttfiion has been put upon this Chm has been allowed to intend inch la.- ‘I‘ .- lantl' only at are (Xpt'efly declared to . :v )n Surely then this is by Charter a Role-r: ‘ t- er and Authority to Parliament to l{itch Laws, at legit, as are made exprti ‘ ‘ fer to its 3131i: conieqttently, is a Lint?» ' ‘y a of .v" the Power given to the General Cour Jar can it he contended that by the Liberties ' irec and natural Snbjefts is to be underfloor ; Exemption from Afts of Parliament been. ii; .mt rec Fretetitetl there, {being it is provr ed, the lame Charter, that their Aéls {hall be it. "‘orce ' anti ifthey that make. the Ohjeétion to ii,_Cll Fifi; Will read the Charter with Attention, they mull be convinced that this Grant of Liberties and Immnmttes isnothing more than a Declaration and Affitranee on the Part of themen that the Place to which their Predecel‘lhrs were about to rem we. was. and would be confidered as Part ol" the Dommxons of the Crown of England, and theref ore that the Stihjet‘ts of the Crown fotremovigiq. and thole born there or in their Pall‘age thither apt‘ttmctlxeir Paflngc from thence, wo Ad not that are born here be confidered as born out of the Lig'ean'ce‘ of the King of En land, éndywh'enj ever they go into any Part" 0 the Dominion; Will they not be deemed Aliens to all‘Intents and Purpofes, this" Grant in the Charter nothth: ‘ (landing 3 They who claim Exemption From Afts of Pat: liament by Virtue of their Rights as Englifh'm'en, fhould confider that it is impoflible the Rights of Engli‘fh Suhjéé‘ts {hould‘ be the fame, in every Re- fpcft, in all Parts of the Dominion's. It is one of their Rights as Englilh Subjeéts to be govarnetfy by Laws mael'e by Perfons in whole EleEtion they have, from Time to Time, a Voice-They r‘e-‘ move from the Kinngm where, perhaps, they were in the fullExercil‘e of this Right tothe Plantations where it cannot be exercifcd or whérc the Ex‘ercifir of it would be of no Benefit to‘. them. Does it follow that the Government. by their Removal from one Part of the Dominions 0;..de fifgtlsmbutDwoultl throughout ail P‘azts to another, lo‘f‘es it's Authority over that Part to might la~~ei wnere" H ~t to bijmlm e, .ason?' well as w:, [ 'r'n [My the v. the Subjeétion they were Under before; or do). they expe‘ét that Gavernment 'flintilil'relinquifli‘ . \v';._nttx C l .V‘ J'j which they remove, anthhat they are freed frotn' "S |