 | Jeptha Root Simms - Germans - 1845 - 686 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. The concurrence of the Peers and the Crown is necessary only as a form of law. This House represents... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Eighteenth century - 1845 - 468 pages
...to 1830, must then have been sown. He says, " Taxation is no part of the government or legislative power ; the taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the commons alone. The concurrence of the peers and of the crown is necessary only as a form of law. This house represents... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1846 - 294 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. The concurrence of the peers and of the crown is necessary only as a form of law. This house represents... | |
 | Thomas Flanagan - Great Britain - 1847 - 996 pages
...the ocean When, therefore, in this house we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax what do we do ? We, your majesty's commons for Great Britain, give and grant to your majesty, what ? — our own property ? No. We give and grant... | |
 | Salma Hale - United States - 1848 - 392 pages
...commons alone; when, therefore, in this house, we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax, what do we do? We, your majesty's commons of Great Britain, give and grant to your majesty—what ? Our own property ? No. We give and grant to your majesty the property of your commons... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Great Britain - 1848 - 208 pages
...inhabitants. When, therefore, in this House we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax, what do we do ? We, your Majesty's Commons for Great Britain, give and grant to your Majesty, — what ? Our own property ? — No ! We give and... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 532 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 and... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - United States - 1850 - 216 pages
...virtue, as tamely to give up their liberties, would be fit mstruments 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... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - United States - 1851 - 212 pages
...commons alone; when, therefore, in this house, we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax, what do we do ? We, your majesty's commons of Great Britain, give and grant to yourmajesty — what ? Our own property 1 No. We give and grant to vour majesty the property of your... | |
 | 1840 - 524 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 and... | |
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Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. 
