 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it. It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to...same time, I assert the authority of. this kingdom to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - United States - 1893 - 572 pages
...America has resisted"; but he also said, " I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonists to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatever. . . . Taxation is no part of the legislative or governing power. Taxes are a voluntary gift... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Bibliography - 1895 - 538 pages
...his expressions. The following extracts will shew how positive and general were his assertions of our right. "It is my opinion that this kingdom has NO RIGHT to lay A TAX upon the colonies." . . . "The Americans are the SONS, not the BASTARDS of England. TAXATION is NO PART of the governing... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1896 - 718 pages
...Since I cannot depend upon health for any future day, I will now say thus much, that in my opinion this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. At the same time, on any real point of legislation,... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - Great Britain - 1897 - 530 pages
...enactment of the Stamp Act, poured forth the volume of his eloquence upon the question of its repeal. 3 " It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. . . Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The 1 See Coxe's Life of Sir R. Walpole.... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - United States - 1898 - 556 pages
...be better expressed than in his own terse and luminous sentences. 1 It is my opinion,' lie said, ' that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. . . . Taxatkw whatever IB a man's own la absolutely his own. No man has a right to take it from him... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...How is this made more tolerable than the Stamp-Act? ... ยป "It is my opinion [quoted from Wm. Pitt] that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies." . . . "The Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England." "Taxation is no part of tne governing... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1898 - 716 pages
...Since I cannot depend upon health for any future day, I will now say thus much, that in my opinion this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. At the same time, on any real point of legislation,... | |
 | Edward McCrady - South Carolina - 1899 - 1042 pages
...expressed the views of all the leaders in South Carolina, "At the same time I assert the authority of the Kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever." Then he went on to argue: "Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are... | |
 | North American review - 1899 - 858 pages
...from the first on the side of the colonies. Speaking in the House of Commons in 1766, Pitt declared that " this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. . . . Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The distinction between legislation... | |
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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. 
