...found in the declaration of the Continental Congress of 1774, and thus reads: The English colonists " are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation...be preserved in all cases of taxation and internal polity,"&.c. ******* The power, whatever it is, comes from the people of the United States. And here...

...are not represented, and, from their local and other circumstances, cannot properly be represented, in the British Parliament, they are entitled to a...Legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be pursued in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign,...

...,in the declaration of the Continental Congress of 1774, and • thus reads: The English colonists " are entitled to a free and exclusive power, of legislation...right of representation can alone be preserved in all • ces to which it owes its origin. All the clauses in the Constitution, and all the clauses out of...

...colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represented in the British Parliament, they are entitled to a...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...

...were entitled "to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign." The colonies, from the earliest periods of the Union, being thus auspiciously formed, it was continued...

...colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represented in the British Parliament^ they are entitled to a...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...

...the fourth in the series of resolutions adopted by the Congress. It declared that the colonies were entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation...legislatures, where their right of representation could alone be preserved in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative...

...colonists nro 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, iu their several provincial legislatures, whore their right of representation can alone be preserved...

...Congress of 1774 elaborates and enforces the same distinction. " The English Colonists," it was said, " are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures ... in all cases of taxation and internal polity. . . . But from the necessity of the case and a regard...

...early as 1774, when the Continental Congress declared that the English colonists ' are entitled to free and EXCLUSIVE power of legislation in their several...preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, &c.' In that great struggle, the patriots who conducted it conceded to the British Parliament the authority...