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Pagina 195
... legislators ought to do what lawyers cannot ; for they have no other rules to bind them but the great principles of ... legislative reason than to fetter and bind their higher capacity by the narrow constructions of subordinate ...
... legislators ought to do what lawyers cannot ; for they have no other rules to bind them but the great principles of ... legislative reason than to fetter and bind their higher capacity by the narrow constructions of subordinate ...
Pagina 216
... legislative power over the colonies . I could not open the statute book without seeing the actual exercise of it , more or less , in all cases whatsoever . This possession passed with me for a title . It does so in all human affairs ...
... legislative power over the colonies . I could not open the statute book without seeing the actual exercise of it , more or less , in all cases whatsoever . This possession passed with me for a title . It does so in all human affairs ...
Pagina 226
... legislative authority produced not a single murmur . If this un- defined power has become odious since that time and full of horror to the colonies , it is because the unsuspicious confidence is lost , and the parental affection , in ...
... legislative authority produced not a single murmur . If this un- defined power has become odious since that time and full of horror to the colonies , it is because the unsuspicious confidence is lost , and the parental affection , in ...
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INTRODUCTION by Canon Peter McKevitt | 1 |
SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL BEFORE | 64 |
ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES | 76 |
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