...early as 1774, when the Continental Congress declared that the English colonists ' are entitled to free and EXCLUSIVE power of legislation in their several...be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, &c.' In that great struggle, the patriots who conducted it conceded to the British Parliament...

...when the Continental Congress declared that the English colonists ' are entitled to free and EXCLUSFVB power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures,...be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, &c.' In that great struggle, the patriots who conducted it conceded to the British Parliament...

...surrendered nor forfeited any of those rights. 4. That the foundation of English liberty and of all government is a right in the people to participate...legislative council ; and as the English colonists cannot be represented in the English Parliament, they are entitled to an exclusive power of legislation,...

...of power. * Declaration of Rights.—" Resolved, 4. That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council." The laws of the Methodist Episcopal Church are made by the General Conference. The General Conference...

...It now stands in the following words : — " Resolved, that the foundation of English liberty and of all free government is a right in the people to participate in thenlegislative council ; and as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and...

...Original American Congress on the same subject : — " That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate...their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represtnted, in the British Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation...

...circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy. Resolved, 4. That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate...and from their local and other circumstances, cannot pro. perly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power...

...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...

...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...

...these unhappy difficulties." The Congress of 1774, in their statement of rights and grievances, affirm "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, in...