 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 482 Seiten
...constitutionally, or reasonably subject to obedience to any money bill of this kingdom. The colonies are equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural...peculiar privileges of Englishmen; equally bound by the laws, and equally participating of the constitution of this free country. The Americans are the... | |
 | 1889 - 876 Seiten
...subjects whatever. Even Pitt, excepting only taxation, asserted " the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation ; " and Burke, from his theory of the English Constitution, was unabfe to dispute this vicious and... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1858 - 714 Seiten
...of Lords against the doctrine of taxation without representation, in 1766, said : " The colonies are equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural...peculiar privileges of Englishmen ; equally bound by the laws, and equally participating of the constitution of this free country. The Americans are the... | |
 | Sir Sydney Smith Bell - 1859 - 520 Seiten
...words of Pitt, were " the sons, and not the bastards, of England, and equally entitled with ourselves to all the natural rights of mankind, and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen," it could only be expected that those of the colonists who had hesitated hitherto as to resistance,... | |
 | 1859 - 370 Seiten
...no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of. this kingdom to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power : the taxes are a voluntary gift and grant... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 Seiten
...injustice of the Stamp Act, he proceeded to vindicate the Americans. " The colonists," he said, " are privations, from their quiet homes in New England,...army on the heights of Point Levi, to the wondering in the Constitution of this free country. The Americans are the sons, not the bastards, of England.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 Seiten
...injustice of the Stamp Act, he proceeded to vindicate the Americans. •' The colonists," he said, " are subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves...equally bound by its laws, and equally participating in the Constitution of this free country. The Americans are the sons, not the bastards, of England.... | |
 | James F. Johnston - 1862 - 60 Seiten
...born subjects within the realm of England. — Hurd. p. 105. '' The colonists," said Chatham, "are equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural...mankind, and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen." The colonists were devoted to liberty, but it was to the principles of English liberty. These principles... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 Seiten
...right to levy a tax upon the colonies. At the same time I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme in every...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 662 Seiten
...as the poletar — fixed for the reciprocal benefit of the rnether country and her infant colonies. They are the subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves to all the rights of mankind and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen, and equally bound by its laws. The Americans... | |
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It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme, in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. 
