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... nature . You have in this kingdom an advantage in lead that amounts to a monopoly . When you find yourself in this situation of advantage , you sometimes venture to tax even your own export . You did so soon after the last war , when ...
... nature . You have in this kingdom an advantage in lead that amounts to a monopoly . When you find yourself in this situation of advantage , you sometimes venture to tax even your own export . You did so soon after the last war , when ...
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... nature of the law , or abridges the power of the lawgiver . It certainly does not . How- ever , titles and formal preambles are not always idle words ; and the lawyers frequently argue from them . I state these facts to show , not what ...
... nature of the law , or abridges the power of the lawgiver . It certainly does not . How- ever , titles and formal preambles are not always idle words ; and the lawyers frequently argue from them . I state these facts to show , not what ...
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... nature with all its infirmities . The Act of Navigation at- tended the colonies from their infancy , grew with their growth , and strengthened with their strength . They were confirmed in obedience to it even more by usage than by law ...
... nature with all its infirmities . The Act of Navigation at- tended the colonies from their infancy , grew with their growth , and strengthened with their strength . They were confirmed in obedience to it even more by usage than by law ...
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... nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . - -- I know , Sir , that great and not unsuccessful pains have been taken to inflame our minds by an outcry , in this House , and out of it , that in America the Act of Navigation ...
... nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . - -- I know , Sir , that great and not unsuccessful pains have been taken to inflame our minds by an outcry , in this House , and out of it , that in America the Act of Navigation ...
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... nature of all greatness not to be exact ; and great trade will always be attended with considerable abuses . The contraband will always keep pace in some measure with the fair trade . It should stand as a fundamental maxim , that no ...
... nature of all greatness not to be exact ; and great trade will always be attended with considerable abuses . The contraband will always keep pace in some measure with the fair trade . It should stand as a fundamental maxim , that no ...
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Page 181 - I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. .Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 180 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 96 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates...
Page 126 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Page 95 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Page 109 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our...
Page 133 - The power inadequate to all other things is often more than sufficient for this. I do not look on the direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable, in order to keep them obedient.
Page 140 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy.
Page 107 - ... of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice in such province or colony, it will be proper, if such proposal shall be approved by his Majesty...
Page 184 - That it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for granting certain duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America...