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 is, ay the American advocates, the natural ditinction of a freeman, and the legal privilege of an Englihman, that he is able to call his poeions his own, that he can it ecure in the enjoyment of inheritance or acquiition, that his houe is fortified by the law, and that nothing can be taken from him but by his own conent. This conent is given for every man by his repreentative in parliament. The Americans unrepreented cannot conent to Englih taxations, as a corporation, and they not conent as individuals.

this argument, it has been oberved by more than one, that its force extends equally to all other laws, for a freeman is not to be expoed to punihment, or be called to any onerous ervice but by his own conent. The Congres has extracted a poition from the fanciful Montequieu, that in a free tate every man being a free agent ought to be concerned in his own .