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Show ( (29) to abolilh the Houi'e of Reprefentatives, to def'troy all trials by Juries, and to give up the province abl‘olutely and totally to the will 01 the King i-«May we not even eflzablifh Popery in the prOVlnCc, as has been lately done in Canada, leaving the fupport of r": oteflanzil‘m to the King's difcretion ?--Can there be any Englifliman who, were it his own cafe, would not {ooner lole his heart's lood than yield to claims to pregnant with evils, and deftruétive to every thing that can diitiiiguifh a Freeman from a Slaw ? I Will take this opportunity to add, that what I have now faid, fuggefls a contideration that demonfirates, on ham different a footing the Colonies are with relpec‘t to our govern~ merit, from particular bodies of men within the kingdom, who geal they difcovcred in repelling fuch an injury? But the truth is, in the preterit infiance, that we are not maintaining but violating our own Conllitution in flmerim. The ellence of our Conltitution conlii'ts in its independency. There is in this cafe no difference between fu/jec7ion and annihilation.- Did, therefore, the Colonies pellets: governments pertcc'lly the fame with ours, the attempt to fubjeét them to ours would be an attempt to ruin them. A free government loles its nature from the moment it becomes liable to he commanded or altered by any {uperior power. But i intended here principally to make the following ob- fervation. The fundamental principle of our government is, " The right of a people to give and grant their own money." happen not to be reprefented. Here, it is impoliible that the reprefented part fhould fubjeé't the unrepreiented part to ar- --It is of no conlcquence, in this cafe, whether we enjoy this bitrary power, without including themfelves. Itis, however, the primip/e on which our government, as a free government, is founded. The/pint of the Confiitution gives it us; and, however imperfectly enjoyed, we glory in it as our firl't and greatel't blefling. it was an attempt to encroach lonies it is not impoflible. But in the Co- we know that it [ms been done. SECT. II. q iW/Ectfier the lVar wit/J America it juflgfed éy £66 Pram/{plat ty‘ 1756 Can/322752733112. H A V E propofed, in the next place, to examine the war with the Colonies by the pr'ncrples of the Confiitution.---- I know, that it is common to {av that we are now maintaininO' the Conllituiion in flmcrz‘ra. lifthis means that we are endeai vouring to ellahlilh our own Contiitution ot‘government there, 11115 by no means true; nor, Vi ere it true, would it be right. '1 hey have chartered governments of their own with which they are plealed; and which, it. any power on earth may change Without their confent, right in a proper manner or not. Moll certainly we do not. upon this richt, in a trifling initunce, that produced the civil war in the reign oFC/Jar/es the Firth-Ought not our brethren in [interim to enjoy this right as well as ourlelves ? Do the principles of the Conllitution give it us, but deny it to them? .Or can we, with any decency, pretend that when we give'to the King t/yeir money, we give him our azuzz?*-~VVhat difterence does it make, that in the time of Charla; it: Fir/2 the at- tempt to take away this rifht was made by me man; but that, in the cafe of z/merica, it is made by a body of men? In a word. This is a war undertaken not only againli the A principles of our own Conflitution, but on purpofe to deltroy other fimilar Conllitut ons in A'i/‘zrrica; and to {ubllitute in their room a military force. See page 14., 15.--ltts, therefore, a grofs and flagrant violation of the Lonf'trtution. that power m‘zv likewile, it it thinlcs proper, deliver them over to the Gram? Sgignior. Suppofe the Lolonies of France and Spain had, by compacts, enjoyed SECT. for near a century and a half, free governments open mall the «mid, and under which they had grown and fiourilhedwhat li‘lOUld/ we think of thcfe kingdoms, were they to at: tempt to deilroy their governments, and to force upon them their own mode of government? Should we not applaud anv zeal at t The author of Taxation ma Tyranny will undoubtedly affert this without h»litation, for in page 69 he compares our preterit fitization with refp-él to the Colonies to that of the art'Cient J‘qylbzanr, who, upon returning from a war, fawn! li‘Ufl/Z all: fun! out 0} [bar mm HOUSES by t/m'rsmvss. |