...acknowledgement of it, which 1 think will well delcrvc their consideration. I know ni no line that can be drawn between the Supreme authority of parliament and the total independence of the colonies. It is inipolfible there ihould be two independent legiflatures in one end the fame ftatc; for alt he...

...this ground with great boldness. "Your Excellency tells us, ' you know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority of parliament and the total independence of the colonies.' If there be no such line, the consequence is either that the colonies are the vassals of the parliament,...

...this ground with great boldness. " Your Excellency tells us, ' you know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority of parliament and the total independence of the colonies.' If there be no such line, the consequence is either that the colonies are the vassals of the parliament,...

...reasoning, they say it is absurd, that a charter formed upon a supposition that a colony is not within the " realm," the prince who granted the charter having...they would by no means be understood to have in the 1773 least abated that just sense of allegiance which they owe to the " crown ;" and if the province...

...the following observations :• — ' Your excellency tells us, you know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority of parliament and the total independence of the colonies : if there be no such line, the consequence is, either that the colonies are vassals of the parliament,...

...a nation, than those of total independence. If your excellency expects to have a line drawn by us, between the supreme authority of parliament and the total independence of the colonies, we should say, it would be an arduous undertaking, and of the highest importance to all the colonies...

...not universal, they opened the door to his own inference. " If there be no such line," said they, " between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the Colonies, then, either the Colonies are vassals of the Parliament, or they are totally independent. As it cannot...

...uncontrolled power, whether of a nation or of a Monarch." " To draw the line of distinction," they continue, "between the supreme authority of Parliament, and the total independence of the Colonies would be an arduous undertaking, and of very great importance to all the other Colonies ; and, therefore,...

...uncontrolled power, whether of a nation or of a monarch." " To draw the line of distinction," they continue, " between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies would be an arduous undertaking, and of very great importance to all the other colonics; and therefore,...

...this course was illegal he was fully persuaded ; and he added, " I know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies. It is impossible there should be two independent legislatures in one and the same state ; for although...