 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...You have no right," said Pitt, " to tax America. Nevertheless, I assert the authority of this kingdom to be sovereign and supreme, in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power : the taxes are a voluntary gift and grant... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...You have no right," said Pitt, " to tax America. Nevertheless, I assert the authority of this kingdom to be sovereign and supreme, in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power: the taxes are a voluntary gift and grant... | |
 | Biography - 1837 - 272 pages
...right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme in every...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever." He recommended that the Stamp Act should be repealed absolutely and immediately, but that the repeal... | |
 | Carlo Botta - United States - 1837 - 508 pages
...land has no right to tax the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme, in every...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. The colonists are the subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1838 - 548 pages
...right to lay a tax u|x,n the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme, in every...and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen : equally l,ound by its laws, and equally participating of the constitution of this free country. The Americans... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 538 pages
...right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and, supreme in every...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever." He recommended that the Stamp Act should be repealed absolutely and immediately, but that the repeal... | |
 | Henry Malden - 1838 - 528 pages
...right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time R 2 I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme in every...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever." He recommended that the Stamp Act should be repealed absolutely and immediately, but that the repeal... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1840 - 652 pages
...case of legislation. " The colonists," he said, " are subjects of this kingdom, equally en" titled with yourselves to all the natural rights of " mankind,...Englishmen ; " — equally bound by its laws, and equally partici" pating in the constitution of this free country. The " Americans are the sons, not the hastards,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1840 - 522 pages
...right to levy a tax upon thu colonies. At the same time I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme in every...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant... | |
 | 1840 - 530 pages
...right to levy a tax upon the colonies. At the same time I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme in every...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant... | |
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It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme, in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. 
