...the colonies, and no authority at all." " If your Excellency expects to have the line of distinction between the supreme authority of Parliament, and the total independence of the colonies drawn by us, we would say it would be an N conservative than the House, announced federalism ; they...

...Council and the Assembly that such a theory meant colonial independence. "I know of no line," said he, "that can be drawn between the supreme authority of...and the total independence of the colonies : It is impossible that there should be two independent legislatures in one and the same state, for although...

...the mother country?" "If," they continue, "your Excellency expects to have the line of distinction between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies drawn by us, we would say that it would be a very arduous undertaking, and of very great importance...

...definite official statements of the imperial problems in America. "I know of no line," he had said, "that can be drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colo- '•' nies" (p. 340). The speech is printed in Speeches of the Governors of Massachusetts from...

...over the vexed question of the jurisdiction of Parliament, the Governor insisting that no line could be drawn "between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies." The reply of the House of Representatives seems to have been principally the work of Adams. It invoked...

...in eliciting from the assembly the statement that if, as the governor said, there could be no line drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies, then the colonies must be totally independent. Such a suggestion, however, was a matter of so great...

...in eliciting from the assembly the statement that if, as the governor said, there could be no line drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies, then the colonies must be totally independent. Such a suggestion, however, was a matter of so great...

...Confederacy of petty States." s These writers remind one of Thomas Hutchinson, who said, " I know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority...Parliament and the total independence of the colonies." 4 England was declared to have preserved her liberty because she had one legislature only; if she had...

...coming to America had forfeited the Englishman's right to choose his own rulers, and that "no line could be drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament, and the total independence of the colonies." Was I the only Massachusetts man who thought, as he thus neared the Valley of Decision, that if such...

...Hutchinson himself. Now he could only repeat the case. Even his oft-quoted assertion that he knew "of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority...Parliament and the total independence of the colonies" was no more than a paraphrase of a statement that had formed the common currency in parliamentary debate...