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 Crown of Great-Britain, and detached (as Ireland is) from this island, ought to be, and have been, esteemed, from the first establishment of our colonies, the only proper and constitutional Legislature for each province respectively, (24) because the Representation of the People, in every part of the British Empire, is absolutely necessary to constitute an effecual Legislature, according to the fundamental principles of the English Constitution; for none of them separately, can be esteemed