 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 612 pages
...represented in the British Parliament, they were entitled to a free and exclusive power of taxation in their several provincial legislatures, where their...polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign. But from the necessity of the case and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, their cheerful... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 610 pages
...declared to be the foundation of English liberty and of all free government. As the colonists were not represented, and from their local and other circumstances,...properly be represented in the British Parliament, they were entitled to a free and exclusive power of taxation in their several provincial legislatures, where... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1865 - 382 pages
...foundation of English liberty is £. right in the people to participate in their legislative councils ; and as the English colonists are not represented,...exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial assemblies, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and... | |
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - United States - 1865 - 580 pages
...and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council ; and as the English colonists are not represented,...and from their local and other circumstances cannot be properly represented in the British Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - United States - 1865 - 558 pages
...Declaration of Rights, made October 14, 1774, asserts I ft at the people of the several colonies ' are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures in all cases of internal polity.' This was refused by the Crown, but reasserted by our forefathers.... | |
 | William B. Wedgwood - Law - 1866 - 494 pages
...and of all free governments, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative councils; and as the English colonists are not represented,...be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal policy, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such a manner as has been heretofore used... | |
 | Beamish Murdoch - Nova Scotia - 1866 - 648 pages
...legislative council ; and proceed to shew, that, as the colonists are not and, from various causes, cannot be represented in the British parliament, they are...be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal policy, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as had been heretofore used... | |
 | William B. Wedgwood - Law - 1866 - 492 pages
...and of all free governments, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative councils; and as the English colonists are not represented,...properly be represented in the British parliament, they arc entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial, legislatures,... | |
 | John Savage - Presidents - 1866 - 610 pages
...the Declaration of Rights, made October 14, 1774, asserts that the people of the several colonies ' are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures in all cases of internal polity.' This was refused by the Crown, but reasserted by our forefathers.... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1866 - 722 pages
...were entitled " to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of thcir sovereign." The colonies from the earliest periods of the settlement of the country, with the... | |
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That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council and as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances, cannot properly be... 
