...without their consent. Their reason for this claim is, That the foundation of English liberty, and of all government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council. They inherit, they say, from their ancestors, the right which their ancestors possessed, of enjoying...

...is not only a freeman, but a legislator, ubi imperator, ibi Roma. As the English Colonists are not represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and excluswe power of legislation in their several legislatures, in all cases of taxation and internal...

...the foundation of English liberty and free government, is a right of the people to participate in the legislative council : and as the English colonists...power of legislation, in their several provincial kgislatures ; where their right of representation can alone be preserved in all cases of taxation and...

...of thos rights. Resolved, nc 4. That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free governments, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative...legislatures, where their right of representation can only be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their...

...empire to the mother country ; but they insist, that the foundation of the English constitution and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council, and as the colonies are not, and from various causes cannot be represented in the British parliament, they are...

...English colonists were not, and could not be properly represented in the British parliament, they 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 their sovereign. They...

...surrendered, nor lost, any of those rights. Resolved, nc 4. That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their Legislative Coun cil; and as the English Colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances,...

..."without their consent. Their reason for this claim is, That the foundation of English liberty, and of all government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council. They inherit, they say, from their ancestors, the right which their ancestors possessed, of enjoying...

...empire to the mother country : but they insist, that the foundation of the English constitution and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council, and as the colonies are not, and from various causes cannot be represented in the British parliament, they ate...

...without their consent. Their reason for this claim is, That the foundation of English liberty, and of all government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council. They inherit, they say, from their ancestors, the right which their ancestors possessed, of enjoying...