History of Massachusetts ...: From 1764, to July, 1775Richardson and Lord, 1822 |
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... legislative assembly of the province , yet they had always acknowledged allegiance to the king , and readily complied with his requisitions . At the time , of which we speak , and immediately preceding the dispute , which led to the ...
... legislative assembly of the province , yet they had always acknowledged allegiance to the king , and readily complied with his requisitions . At the time , of which we speak , and immediately preceding the dispute , which led to the ...
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... legislative authority , should raise the sums re- quired . But as this proposal involved an uncertainty , whether the sums needed , would be raised , it was abandoned as inefficacious . It would , in effect , be no more than a ...
... legislative authority , should raise the sums re- quired . But as this proposal involved an uncertainty , whether the sums needed , would be raised , it was abandoned as inefficacious . It would , in effect , be no more than a ...
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... legislative powers to the as- semblies of the people by their representatives : and the practice , under these charters , for a long time , was a perfect exercise of legislative authority in each colony . The doings of Commissioners ...
... legislative powers to the as- semblies of the people by their representatives : and the practice , under these charters , for a long time , was a perfect exercise of legislative authority in each colony . The doings of Commissioners ...
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... , and declared the object for which government was established ; the good of the citizens , or subjects : and thence was deduced the right of the people to examine and judge of even acts of the supreme legislative author- ity 22.
... , and declared the object for which government was established ; the good of the citizens , or subjects : and thence was deduced the right of the people to examine and judge of even acts of the supreme legislative author- ity 22.
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... legislative act - raising a standing army in time of peace , at his own will and that of his ministers -and quartering them upon the people contrary to law - violating the freedom of elections , and giving judicial courts the powers of ...
... legislative act - raising a standing army in time of peace , at his own will and that of his ministers -and quartering them upon the people contrary to law - violating the freedom of elections , and giving judicial courts the powers of ...
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Seite 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 158 - The Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper ; they have been wronged ; they have been driven to madness, by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned ? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side.
Seite 311 - ... and every of their children which shall happen to be born there, or on the seas in going thither, or returning from thence shall have and enjoy all liberties and immunities of free and natural subjects within any of the dominions of us, our heirs and successors, to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever as if they and every of them were born within this our realm of England.
Seite 103 - The commons of America, represented in their several assemblies, have ever been in possession of the exercise of this, their constitutional right, of giving and granting their own money. They would have been slaves if they had not enjoyed it.
Seite 330 - America, and to deliberate and determine upon wise and proper measures, to be by them recommended to all the colonies, for the recovery and establishment of their just rights and liberties, civil and religious, and the restoration of union and harmony between Great Britain and the colonies, most ardently desired by all good men: Therefore, resolved, that the Hon.
Seite 136 - That it is an essential unalterable right in nature, ingrafted into the British constitution as a fundamental law, and ever held sacred and irrevocable by the subjects within the realm, that what a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but which cannot be taken from him without his consent.
Seite 129 - The establishment of a Protestant Episcopate in America is also very zealously contended for : and it is very alarming to a people whose fathers, from the hardships they suffered under such an establishment, were obliged to fly their native country into a wilderness...
Seite 348 - Tuesday the sixth instant; trusting that the effect of the united efforts of North America in their behalf, will carry such conviction to the British nation of the unwise, unjust, and ruinous policy of the present administration, as quickly to introduce better men, and wiser measures.
Seite 19 - ... if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands ? Why not the produce of our lands and everything we possess or make use of ? This we apprehend annihilates our charter right to govern and tax ourselves. It strikes at our British privileges, which, as we have never forfeited them, we hold in common with our fellow subjects who are natives of Britain.
Seite 352 - Massachusetts Bay, to the execution of the late acts of parliament; and if the same shall be attempted to be carried into execution by force, in such case, all America ought to support them in their opposition.