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 the opinion. So many political dogmatits have denied to the Mother-country the power of taxing the Colonies, and have enforced their denial with o much violence of outcry, that their ect is already very numerous, and the publick voice upends its deciion.

moral and political quetions the contet between interet and jutice has been often tedious and often fierce, but perhaps it never happened before, that jutice found much oppoition with interet on her ide.

the atisfaction of this inquiry, it is neceary to confider how a Colony is contituted, what are the terms of migration as dictated by Nature, or ettled by compact, and what ocial or political rights the man loes, or acquires, that leaves his country to etablih himelf in a ditant plantation.