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Show l '26 1 wife. 1 27 ] On this point of Taxes ti.0 ableft pew, your general arguments to their own cafe. It and mofi: eloquent tongues have been exe rCifed ; the greated lpirits have aeted and lufleied. In order to "WC the tullef't 11115511111011 concern- is not eafy indeed to make a monopoly of theorems and ceiollaries. The faé‘t is, that they ing theimpaitance of this point, it was not only neceffary for thole whoin aigumcnt deter ided the excellence of the Englilh conftitution, to inlift on this piivilege of granting money as a dry point of faeqc, and to prove, that the right had did thus apply thofe gene1al a1guments, and your mode or governing them, whether through lenit}' or indolence, thiough Wiidom 01 miftake, contirmed them in the imagination, that they, as well as you, had an intern-ft in thefe common principles. been flCkflOWlCCi'edll811Cl€llt parchments, and blind ul1ges, to refide in a certain body called They were further confirmed in this'pleafing an Houle of Commons. They went much fur- thei; they attempted to prove, and they fucceeded, that in theory it ought to be to, from error by the form of their provincial legillative afiE1nl.)lies 1heir governments are popular in an high degree; fome a1e merely popular; in the particular nature of a Houfe of Commons, as an immediate repreféntative 0f the people; and this {hare of the people in their ordinary whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not. They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that, in all monars chies, the people mutt in elfeCt themfelves mediately or immediately poffefs the power of all, the popularreprelentative is the mof't weiOhty; government neve1 fails to inlpire them with lofty lentiments, and with a {hong aveifion from whatever tends to deprive them of their Chief importance. If any thing were wanting to this neceffary granting their own money, or no fhadow of liberty could fubfift. The Colonies draw from you as with their life-blood, thefe ideas and operation of the form of government, Religion would have given it a complete eEe&.Reli()i011, principles. Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached 011 this fpecific point of 1.lw11ys a p1inciple of ene15y, 111 this new people, taxing. Libe1ty might be fafe, or might be of p10 teliing it is {1110 one main caufe of this free endangered in twenty other particulais, without their being much pleated or alarmed. Here they felt its pulle; and as they found that beat, they thought themfelves lick or found. I do not fay whether they were right or wrong in applying ‘ your fpi1it.lhe people are protefiants; and of that is no Way 11 em out or impaired, and their mode kind, whichIS the moft adverfe to all implicit inbmiifion of mind and opinion ThisIS a per- luaiion not only favourable to liberty, but built 31.9011 it, f I do not think, Sir, that the reafon of I this |