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Show [In] [no] and as it may probably happen dellruc'live of the firfl Law of Society, the Good of the Whole. You tell us that " after the Aflhmption of all the Powers of Government, by Virtue of the new Charter, an Aft pafl‘ed for the reviving for file-Mia to fome Acts of Parliament that they con}~ ceived might operate for their Benefit, they did not conceive themlelves bound by any ofits Acts which they judged would operate to the Injury even oflndividuals. a limited Time all the localLaws of the Malla- Your Excellency has not thought proper to chufetts- Bay and New-Plymouth relpeétively, not repugnant to the Laws of England. And at attempt to confute the Rcafoning of a learned the fame Sellion an Act pall‘ed eflablilhing Naval Officers, that all undue Tracing contrary to an ted by us on this ()ccafion, to [how that the Ana thority of the Legiflature does not extend {0 far fAélI of Parliament-may be prevented." Among as the Fundamentals of the Confiitution. the Afts that were then revived we maycreationably fuppofe was that whereby Provition was made to give Force to this Aft of Parliament in are unhappy in not having your Remarksupon theProvince. The Eflablifhment therefore ofthe Naval Officers was to aid the Execution of an Act of Parliament For the Obfervanee of which within the Colony the Allémbly had before made Provition after free Debates with their own Cones them and by their own Act, The A6} of Parliament pafl'ed in I74t, for putting an End to feveral unwarrantableSch emC‘S, mentioned by your Excellency, was dcligned {or the general Good, and if the Validity of it was not difputed, it cannot be urged as a Coneelhon Writer on the Laws of Nature and Nations, quoa We the Realoning of that great Man ; and until it is confined, we {hall remain of the Opinion, that the Fundamentals of the Conflitution being excepted from the Commithon of the Legiflators. none of the Acts or Doings of the General All fembly, however deliberate and folemn, could avail to Change them, if the People have not In Very exprefi Terms given them the Power to do it ; and that much leis oughttheir A513 and Doings however numerous, which barely refer to Acts 0F Parliament made exprefly to relate to us, to be taken as an Acknowledgment that we are {object to the Supreme Authority of Parliaf meet. ofthe fuprenie Authority, toinake Laws binding on us In all Cd N 1L'tlJt'l/c,"LFr,-'r ,- But ifttht iiqn of We {hall firm up our own fentiments in the it waster the general Benefit ofthe Province, it was in one Relpeét at leatt greatly complained of by the Perfons more immediately atltfted by it; and to remedy the Incwweniitee, the Le- Words oFth-at learned Writer Mr. Hooker, in his Ecclcfiatlical Policy, as quoted byMrLocke, " The lawful Power of. making Laws to command whole political Societies of. Men, belonglftg lo properly to the lill‘th inure bocrettcs, that; gillative of this Province pals'd an Aft, ducal )" mihtating with it. Which is the {irongell evi~ denee, that altho' they may have fitbuzitted 4‘3 ,1 r V3.1"), . ,t of . ‘ what , - ‘ver, '0 kind foe or Potentate for any Prince |