...grievances, affirm "a free and exclu rive power of legislation " in their several Provincial Legislatures, y the Federal Government, would best subserve the...of the Territory, when the inhabitants were few and (1 Jour. Cong., 32.) The unanimous consent of the people of the colonies, .then, to the power of their...

...colonists, because of local and other circumstances, could not be represented in Parliament, they were "entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation...taxation and internal polity," subject only to the royal veto in the customary way. "But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest...

...grievances, affirm "a free and exclu rive power of legislation ' in their several Provincial Legislatures, " in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject...negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has beer heretofore used and accustomed." (1 Jour. Cong., 32.) The unanimous consent of the people of the...

...was adopted the fourth article of the "Declaration" of the first Continental Congress that predicated "a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures . . . in all cases of taxation and internal polity." This article may have served to convince the lukewarm...

...a right in the people to participate in the legislative council : and as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances...be preserved in all cases of taxation and internal policy, subject only to the negative of their sovereigns, in such a manner as has been heretofore used...

...right in the people to participate in their legislative council : and as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances,...be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal policy, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used...

...right in the people to participate in their legislative council : and as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances, cannot properly be represented in the British Earliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of tgislation in their several provincial...

...circumstances, cannot properly bo represented in the British parliament, they are entitled (oa free nnd exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial...right of representation can alone be preserved, in nil cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only i0 the negative of their sovereign, in such...

...members of the General Assembly thereof." 1 1 The Continental Congress joined the two propositions: and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial Legislatures, where their right to representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only...

...right in the people to participate in their legislative council: and as the English colonists are not represented ... in the British parliament, they are...legislation in their several provincial legislatures . . . 5. That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England . . . 6. That they...