 | Carlo Botta - United States - 1840 - 520 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) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...tax upon the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies, 1o be sovereign and supreme, in every circumstance of...and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen ; equally hound by its laws, and equally participating of the constitution of this free country. The Americans... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1841 - 834 pages
...assertion, that her authority over those colonies was sovereign and supreme. " The colonists," he said, "are subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves...equally bound by its laws, and equally participating in the constitution of this free country. The Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England.... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 256 pages
...distinct from the realm of England : and, moreover, " the authority over them was declared by lord Chatham to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation, "(g) The statute 6 Geo. III. also declares the colonies subordinate to and dependent upon the imperial... | |
 | J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1844 - 742 pages
...no right to tax the colonies. At the same time he asserted the authority of the mother country over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme, in every...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever; but he pretended, that taxation was no part of the governing or legislative power. In support of this... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 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...laws, and equally participating of the constitution <>f this free country. The Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England". Taxation is no part... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 554 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...government and legislation whatsoever. They are the sub- i jects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves to all I the natural rights of mankind... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...England 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... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1845 - 536 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... | |
 | Jeptha Root Simms - Germans - 1845 - 686 pages
...has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time, 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... | |
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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. 
