 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - Confederate States of America - 1892 - 828 pages
...(of rule) in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid (Virginia), has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." On the very day on which Virginia executed her deed of cession, a committee, previously appointed by... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1892 - 324 pages
...and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony;" and that the Stamp Act " has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." On June 8, 1765, Massachusetts suggested another means of remonstrance, by call1ng upon her sister... | |
 | Philip Alexander Bruce, William Glover Stanard - Virginia - 1894 - 556 pages
...to vest such power in any person or persons, whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British, as well as American freedom." The publication of these resolves fired the Colonies (they all having continuously claimed the same... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Constitutional history - 1895 - 458 pages
...attempt to vest the power of taxation in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the said Assembly, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom ; " that he proposed by resolution that the Colony of Virginia be immediately put into a state of defence... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1896 - 378 pages
...inhabitants of this colony; and that every attempt to vest such power in any other person or persons whatever than the General Assembly aforesaid, is illegal, unconstitutional,...manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American liberty. " Resolved, That his Majesty's liege people, the inhabitants of this colony, are not bound... | |
 | George Henry Martin - Civics - 1896 - 106 pages
...inhabitants of this colony; and that every attempt to vest such power in any other person or persons whatever than the General Assembly aforesaid, is illegal, unconstitutional,...manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American liberty." Other colonies adopted similiar series of resolutions. The supporters of Parliamentary taxation... | |
 | Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 352 pages
...to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom. ' ' On the back of the paper containing those resolutions, and found among Henry's papers after his... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1897 - 322 pages
...and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony;" and that the Stamp Act " has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." On June 8, t765, Massachusetts suggested another means of remonstrance, by calling upon her sister... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...of this colony; and that every attempt to vest such power in any other person or persons whatsoever than the General Assembly aforesaid, is illegal, unconstitutional,...manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American liberty. Resolved, That- . . . the inhabitants of this colony, are not bound to yield obedience to... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1898 - 260 pages
...when he said in his famous resolutions of 1765 that such government of the colonies by Great Britain " has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." An imperial policy will surely lead some day to an emperor. He may assume some softer name if our sensitiveness... | |
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Resolved therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever... 
