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 be over-ruled is highly probable: but power is no ufficient evidence of truth. Let us examine our own claim, and the objections of the recuants, with caution proportioned to the event of the deciion, which mut convict one part of robbery, or the other of rebellion.

is a payment exacted by authority from part of the community for the benefit of the whole. From whom, and in what proportion uch payment hall be required, and to what ues it hall be applied, thoe only are to judge to whom government is intruded. In the Britih dominion taxes are apportioned, levied, and appropriated by the tates aembled in parliament.

every empire all the ubordinate communities are liable to taxation, becaue they all hare the benefits of government, and therefore ought all to furnih their proportion of the expence.