The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia ...

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Franklin-Turner Company, 1908
 

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Página 50 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Página 50 - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances, cannot properly be represented in the British Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Página 49 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1.
Página 57 - Fourteenth. And we do further agree and resolve, that we will have no trade, commerce, dealings or intercourse whatsoever, with any colony or province, in North America, which shall not accede to, or which shall hereafter violate this association, but will hold them as unworthy of the rights of freemen, and as inimical to the liberties of their country.
Página 49 - All which statutes are impolitic, unjust, and cruel, as well as unconstitutional, and most dangerous and destructive of American rights. "And whereas, assemblies have been frequently dissolved, contrary to the rights of the people, when they attempted to deliberate on grievances ; and their dutiful, humble, loyal, and reasonable petitions to the crown for redress, have been repeatedly treated with contempt by his majesty's ministers of state ; the good people of the several colonies of...
Página 50 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Página 52 - ... described in the said act, out of the realm, to be indicted and tried for the same in any shire or county within the realm.
Página 239 - Majesty's dock-yards, magazines, ships, ammunition and stores,' by which any persons charged with committing any of the offences therein described, in America, may be tried in any shire or county within the realm, is repealed — and until the four Acts passed in the last session of Parliament, viz., that for stopping the port and blocking up the harbour of Boston — that for altering the Charter and Government of the Massachusetts Bay — and that which is entitled, "An Act for the better administration...
Página 44 - India tea from any part of the world ; nor any molasses, syrups, paneles, coffee or pimento, from the British plantations or from Dominica ; nor wines from Madeira or the Western Islands ; nor foreign indigo.
Página 51 - In the course of our inquiry, we find many infringements and violations of the foregoing rights, which from an ardent desire, that harmony and mutual intercourse of affection and interest may be restored, we pass over for the present, and proceed to state such acts and measures as have been adopted since the last war, which demonstrate a system formed to enslave America.

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