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Show [ 31 ] l. so :] Perfons as {hall be chofen by theMajority of the Electors, although their own Voices may be for Tome other Perlon? And "is it not contrary to a their natural Rights to be obliged to lubmit to Reprefentative for {even Years, or even oneYear, sl‘ter they are difiittisfied with his Conduct, al- though they gave their Voices for him, when he was elected ? This mull therefore be confidered as an Oojeétion againlt a State of Government rather than againlt any particular Form." Your Excellencv's Premill'es are true, but we do not think your Conclufion follows from them. -It is true, that every Rcflraint of Government is aPrivation of natural Right: and the two Cafes , ou have been pleafed to mention, may be Intlances of that Privation. But as they arifi from the Nature of Society and Government ; and as Government is necefl'ary to fecure other natural Rights infinitely more valuable, they cannot therefore be confidered as an Objection either " agaitafl a State of Government" or " againfi any particular Form of it." Life, Liberty, Property, and the Dilpofitl of that Property with our own Confent, are natural Rights. Will any one put the other in Compe- Hence is dcducible, Reprelimtation : which bein neceflary to preferve thefe invaluable RithS of Nature, is itlelf, for that Reafon, a natiiral Right, coinciding with, and running into, that great Law of Nature, Self-Prefervation. Thus have we confidered the molt material Parts of your Speech, and agreeable to your De-_ fire difclofed to you our Sentiments on the Sub- jeft of it. " Independence, as your Excellency riohtiy judged, we have not in Contemplation." a We cannot however adopt " your Principles of GoVCrnment," or acquiefee in all the Inferences you have drawn from them. I ' We have the highefl Ref'peft for that augul't Body the Parliament, and do not prelume to prefcribe the exact Limits of its Authority, yet: with the Deference that is due to it, we are, humbly of Opinion, that as all human Authority tn the Nature of it, is and ought to be limited, it cannot con-{titutionally extend, for the Real'ons we have above fuggcfied, to the levying of Taxes in any Form, on his Majefly's Subjeéls of this Province. tition with thefc, or infer that becaufe thofe other mull be given up in a State of Government, thefe mul't be given up alli» ? The Preliervation ofthele Rights is the great End of Government: In fuch Principles as there " our Predecel‘lors were edit and happy :" and in the due Operation of fuch, their Delcendants the prelent Inhabi- tants of this Province have been can; and happy 2 but is it probable they will be tfii‘t‘lually it‘CtllCtl by a Governor, which the Proprittors of' them have no Part in the Direction offantl over whirl) 1‘ they have no Power or Influence whatever v " thin-"C but they are not {0 now. Their Linealineis and Unhappinefs are derived From Atmt‘turzhmenr. and Rcrtulations of Government, that lately and within |