Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... privileges and immunities with His Majesty's other subjects who reside in the interior counties of Philadelphia , Chester , and Bucks , and therefore ought not to be excluded from an equal share with them in the very important privilege ...
... privileges and immunities with His Majesty's other subjects who reside in the interior counties of Philadelphia , Chester , and Bucks , and therefore ought not to be excluded from an equal share with them in the very important privilege ...
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... privileges of freedom and equality ; wherefore we humbly pray that we may be no longer deprived of an equal number with the three aforesaid counties , to represent us in Assembly . 2. We understand that a bill is now before the House of ...
... privileges of freedom and equality ; wherefore we humbly pray that we may be no longer deprived of an equal number with the three aforesaid counties , to represent us in Assembly . 2. We understand that a bill is now before the House of ...
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... privileges , franchises , and immunities , that have at any time been held , enjoyed , and possessed , by the people of Great Britain . Resolved , That by two royal charters , granted by King James the First , the colonists aforesaid ...
... privileges , franchises , and immunities , that have at any time been held , enjoyed , and possessed , by the people of Great Britain . Resolved , That by two royal charters , granted by King James the First , the colonists aforesaid ...
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... privilege is once given up , that liberty which every Englishman has a right to , is torn from them , they are all slaves , and all is lost . The liberty of an Englishman is a phrase of so various a signification , having within these ...
... privilege is once given up , that liberty which every Englishman has a right to , is torn from them , they are all slaves , and all is lost . The liberty of an Englishman is a phrase of so various a signification , having within these ...
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... privilege which is common to all British subjects , of being taxed only with their own consent given by their representatives , and all the advocates for the Stamp Act admit this claim . Whether therefore . the imposition of the stamp ...
... privilege which is common to all British subjects , of being taxed only with their own consent given by their representatives , and all the advocates for the Stamp Act admit this claim . Whether therefore . the imposition of the stamp ...
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