| James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1828 - 628 pages
...branclies of the legislature must concur in enforcing it. To borrow words attributed to Lord Chatham ; " 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... | |
| Josiah Conder - Canada - 1829 - 466 pages
...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. When, therefore, in this house, we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But, in an American... | |
| Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 396 pages
...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. When, therefore, in this house, we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But, in an American... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...virtue, as tamely to give up their liberties, would be fit instruments to make slaves of the rest! The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the commons alone; when, therefore, in this house, we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American... | |
| William Shepherd - United States - 1834 - 298 pages
...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... | |
| James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power: the taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of...alone. The concurrence of the peers and of the crown is necessary only as a form of law. This house represents the commons of Great Britain. Here we give and... | |
| James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power : the taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of...alone. The concurrence of the peers and of the crown is necessary only as a form of law. This house represents the commons of Great Britain. Here we give and... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. 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... | |
| Carlo Botta - United States - 1837 - 508 pages
...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... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1838 - 548 pages
...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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