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 . Whatever is true of taxation is true of every other law, that he who is bound by it, without his conent, is not free, for he is not concerned in his own government.

that denies the Englih Parliament the right of taxation, denies it likewie the right of making any other laws civil or criminal, yet this power over the Colonies was never yet diputed by themelves. They have always admitted tatutes for the punihment of offences, and for the redres or prevention of inconveniencies, and the reception of any law draws after it by a chain which cannot be broken, the unwelcome neceity of ubmitting to taxation.

a free man is governed by himelf, or by laws to which he has conented, is a poition of mighty ound: but every man that utters it, with whatever confidence, and every man that hears it, with whatever