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Show .[‘ 86' ]7 [-37] mated the Supreme Authority of a Nation nit-1ft Laws for the Kingdom, without interfering with neverthelefs be limitted in it's Acts to theObjcfls that are properly or c nllitutionally cognimble the Privileges of the Subordinate Powers within to quote a Paflage from your Speech, at theOpcnin of this Seflion, where yottr Excellency lays, it? And alfo fee how it may extend its Care and Protection to its Colonies. without injuring their Conflitutional Rights ?--What hasbeen here laid concerning Supreme Authority has no Reference " (0 much of'rthe Spirit of Liberty breathes through all Parts of the Englilh Conflilulion, that to the Manner in which it has been in Fact exereilcd, but'is wholly confined to. its general although from the-Nature of. Government there mull be one Supreme Authority over the whole, yet this Con'flitution will admit ‘of Subordinate Nature ; and if it conveys any jull Idea of it, by it. To illullrate our Meaning. we begLeave owers with Legiflative and Executive Authoriy, greater or lefs, according to Local and other Cirv cumflanccs."~-This is very truc,and implies,that the Inf'ercnccs that have been at any Time deduced from it, injurious to the Rights of the Colionills, are not well Founded; and have proba» bly aril'en from a Milconccption of the Nature of that Authority. the Legiflative and Executive Authority granted to the Subordinate Powers '{hould extend and operate as far as the‘Grant allows; and that, If it does not exceed the Limits prefcribed to it, Your Excellency reprefents us as introducing a‘Number of Authorities merely to fhew, that " all Taxes upon Englilh Subjects mull be levi, Cd by Virtue of the A&, not of the King alone and noForfeiture be incurred, the SupremePower ‘uhas no rightfulAuthority to take away or diminilh but in Conjunction with the Lords and Com- IL or to lubllitute its own Ac‘ts in Cafes wherein mons." and are pleafed to add, that " you the Acts of the Subordinate Power can, acctirding to its‘ Conflitution, operate. To {iippofe the you fhould very readily have allowed it ; and other all filould as readily have allowed, that contrary is to fuppofe, that it has no Property in the Privileges granted to it, for if it holds (bent at the Will of the Supreme Power, which it Tull do by the above Suppolition, it can have no ilroperty in them: upon which Principle, which lllYOlvcs the Contradiction, that what is granted ts 1n Realitynot granted. no SubordinateLI'owCr can ‘exill. But as in Flu the two P were are DUE If-Cumpatiblc, and do rub-ill together, each FCilramint: its Afis to their CtinllitLititinJlCN‘iccflS, £3111 We not fiom hence lee how the Sttpi't‘mc Ltt‘cr may lupcwife) re 0«r '.natc,and make general Laws the fame Aft-s of Legifltttion mull be mild by ."~----~ alone King jgointAuthority, and not by the us the Your Excellency " would have favec-l: and on our Trouble of all there-Authorities :" ave fav- ngtoh d have been as willi Part we Ihoul dtfntemberCd your Excellency the Trouble or takmgOcArgument, and from thence lug our geous Light, cafion to reprcicnt it in a difadvanta 01‘ rather totally dellroying it. mry to Reca~ In Janice to out-litlves it is nece ve, that pun-late that Argument adduced to pro the |
