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Show [108] [ I 09 l Time to Time," and finally « the Ebablifhmcnt Legiflators, that they thereby obtain an Ant/parity of the Form which every one of us has eomplied with, as the Charter in exprefs Terms requires it has ever been a Point in Difpute whether the over us, and that ever hereafter we mull obey them of @1127. We would oblerve that one of the fitll Acts of the General Allentbly of this Province lince the prel'ent Charter, was an A& Kings of England were ipfo faé'lo Kings in and requiring the taking the Oaths mentioned in an over this Colony or Province. was made between King Charles the Firfl, his Aé‘t of. Parliament, to which you refer us : For what Purpofe was thisAEt of the Alliztttbly paged, Heirs and Suceellors, and the Governor and if it was the Senfe of the Legiflators that the Company, their Heirs and StreCellhrs. It iseafy Aft of Parliament was in Force in the Province. And at the fitme Time another Aé‘t was made for the Ellablilhment 0F other Oaths necnrlltry to be taken; borh which Afts have theRoyal Sané‘tirm, and are now in Force. Your Exeellency lays, that when the Colony applied to King William for a fecand Charter, they knew the Oath the and makes our Duty." We do not know that The Compaé't upon this Principle to account for the Acknow. ledgment of and Suhmiflion to King William and Queen Mary as Sucechors of Charles the Firl‘t, in the Room of King James : Befides it is to be ‘confidered, that the People in the Colony as well as in England had {ufTered under the TYttANT James, by which he had alike for« feited his Right to reign over both. There had been a Revolution here as well as in England. The Eyes of the People here were upon William cording to the Statutes in Parliament, and (whichyour Excellency here omits) the Law: and (Inflow: of the fame. By the [flaws ancl King had talten, which was to govern them ac- and Mary, and the News of their being pro- Culloms of Parliament, the People of hngland claimed in England was as your EXCellency's freely debate and confent to fuch Statutes as are Hiflory tells us, " the molt joyful News ever made by theml‘elves or their chofen'Repreleptb received in New-Englanl" And if they were not ploclaimed here " by virtue of an Aél of tive‘. kind mayjullly challenge as. their mét'rent Right. the Colony," it was, as we. think may be con- ACCOrtling to this Law the King has an undouotetl eluded from the Tenor of yettr llil‘tory, with the general or univerl'al Content of the People as apparently as if " fuch 1%? had paged." lt is Cmfimt alone, that makes any humanLaws bind- Right towgovern us. Your ‘Eacellency upon Recolleétion finely will not inlet from hence, ing ; and as a learned Author obferves, a purely 'valzmtrzry Suhnt'llion to an A8, becaufe it is highly in our Favor and for our Benefit, is in all Equity and Jullice to be do and as not at all proceeding from the Rig/Gr we include in the The. is a Law or Cullom which all Alan- that it was the Settle of. our Pret'leeellltrs that there was to remain a Supremacy in the lunglnn Parliament, or a Full Power and A:.tthortty' to make Laws binding upon us in allCalvs yt'l‘lrétCVCt: in that Parliament where we cannot nature anl deli/25min, upon the Neccl'iity or Expediency ct ‘ a m ,2 l \ Ct«m‘bnr tq ,3 any Law, 311dCOl‘thslltvL‘lly\hlltloutbul‘ an aeguaamt a, |
