| English literature - 1766 - 520 pages
...colonies. He is of opinion, that taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power, and that the taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the commons alone. He next tells us, that in antient days the barons and the clergy gave and granted to the crown. They... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 700 pages
...of the conftitution of this free country. The Americans are the fons, not the baftards, of England. Taxation is no part of the governing or legiflative...power. — The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant »l the commons alone. In legiflation the three eftates uf the realm are alike concerned, but the concurrence... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1786 - 376 pages
...Conftitution.of this free country. The Americans are the fons, not the baftards, of England. Taxauon is no part of the governing or legiflative power....a voluntary gift and grant .of the Commons alone. In legiflation the three eftates of the realm are alike concerned, but the concurrence of the Peers... | |
| John Almon, William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Great Britain - 1792
...of the conftitution of this free country.. The Americans are the fons, not the biftards, of England. Taxation is no part of the governing or legiflative...are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legiflation the three eftates of the realm are alike concerned, but the concurrence of the Peers... | |
| John Almon - Great Britain - 1793 - 542 pages
...are the ' fons, not the baftards of England. Taxai tion is no part of the governing or Icgiila' tive power. — The taxes are a voluntary « gift and grant of the Commons alone. In * legiflation the three eftates of the realm are * alike concerned, but the concurrence of ' the... | |
| John Almon - Great Britain - 1797 - 394 pages
...words in one of Lord Chatham's fpeeches, which contain a full anfwer to this opinion of the Judge. , " Taxation is no part of the governing or legiflative power. The taxes are a voluntluy gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legiflation the three eftates of the realm are alike... | |
| John Almon - Great Britain - 1797 - 550 pages
...Americans are the fons, not the baftards of England. Taxation is no part of the governing or legiflalive power. — The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legiflation the three eftates of the realm are alike concerned, but the concurrence of the Peers... | |
| John Burk - Slavery - 1805 - 490 pages
...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power ; the taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of...alone. The concurrence of the peers and of the crown is necessary only as a form of law. This house represents the commons of Great Britain. When in this house... | |
| Trinidad. [Appendix.] - Constitutional history - 1807 - 238 pages
...declared, on Thursday, January 30th, 1763, that — " Taxation is no . part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm are alike concerned; but the concurrence of the Peers... | |
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