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Show [96] [97] and Des of Nations." The Opinions therefore, terminations of the greatell Sages and Judges of Uglit not the Law in the Exchequer (,llflfller'O preto be Confidered as deCihvc or binding in our fent Cgmwverfy With your Excellency, any further than they are conlonant to natural Keaton, If however we were to ‘recur to luch Opinions and Determinations we lnould find very great Authorities in our Favour, to lhow that the biao e tinge tutes of England are not binding on thoi 5 are not reprei‘cnted in Parliament there. nd bou was Opinion of Lord Coke that. Ireland by Statutes ofEngland wherein they were name , if compared with his other Writings, appears manifeflly to be grounded upon a Suppohtion, that Iieland had by an A6} of their own, in the Reign of King John, confentcd .to be thus bound, and upon any other Suppofition this Opinion would be ‘againi't Rea/on ; for Con/en! only give! from Grotius, fays " We look upon it to be neither Truth nor Juflice that Mother Cities ought of Neceflity and by #3: Law tijatyre to rule over {I}: Colonies," Your Excellency has mitintcrpreted what we have (aid, " that no Country by theCommonLaw, was l'ubjeét to the Laws or the Parliament but the Realm ofEngland," and are pleal'ed to tell us that we haveexpreii‘ed ourfelves "Incautioufl ." We beg Leave to recite theWordsof theJudges ofEnga land in the beforementioned Cafe to our Purpofe. " If a King go out ofEnglaud with a Company of his Servants, Allegiance remaineth among his Subjects and Servants, altho' he he out of his Realm wbereto 111': Law: are confined." We did not mean to fay, as your Excellency would lup- pof'e. that " the Common Law preicri‘oes Limits to the Extent ofthe Legiflative Power," though We beg Leave, upon We {hall always affirm it to be true oftheLaw of what your Excellency has obferved of the Fol;ny becoming a Part of the State, 'to fubdiom t (t; .Reafon and natural Equity. Your Excellency thinks you have made it appear,that the Colony Opinions of feveral learned CiVilians, as qtiotlc , 0f Maliachul‘etts- Bay is holden as feudatory of by a very able Lawyer in this Country ; ‘_‘ Co 0nies, fays Putiendorf, are fettled in different the Imperial Crown ofEnglaud ;" and therefore Methods. For either the Colony contzmzer a Part of the Common Wealth it was let out thOrity in aCafe inflame Refpcflr analogous to .‘t'." from ; or clfe is obliged to pay a dutiful under the Government of the King's Laws." Your Excellency has not named this Authority ; but we conceive his Meaning mutt be, that be- ing Feudatory, it is under the Government ofthc King's Laws wife/1115!}; for as we have before human Laws their Force. Regard to the Mother Common Wealth, and to be in Readincfs to defend and Vindicate its Honor, and fo is united by 3 Sort of unequal Confederacy ; or laflly, is ercc‘i'edmto a/eficraifd Common [Whit/1 and aflmes the fame Jug/iffy with the State it dcicended from." And King Itillitis; as quoted by the fame learned A132; you lay, " to tife the Words ofa very great {Xubeing feudatory it necellarily follows, that it is faid the Feudal Syflem admits of'no Idea of the: Authority of Parliament, and this would have: N been |