| George Bancroft - 1852 - 484 páginas
...representation, and cannot be bound to pay taxes without their consent. "Taxation is no part of the governing power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the commons alone. In an American tax, what do we do ? We, your majesty's Commons of Great Britain, give and grant to your... | |
| George Bancroft - 1866 - 990 páginas
...representation, and cannot be bound to pay taxes without their consent. " Taxation is no part of the governing power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the commons alone. In an American tax, what do we do ? We, your majesty's Commons of Great Britain, give and grant to your... | |
| 1910 - 880 páginas
...Pitt made the following solemn declaration : — " Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power ; the taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three states of the realm are alike concerned, but the concurrence of the Peers and... | |
| Carlo Botta - 1826 - 430 páginas
...Americans are the sons, not the bastards, of England. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers... | |
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