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 the privileges of an American corn the limits of place; they are part of himelf, and cannot be lot by departure from his country; they float in the air, or glide under the ocean.

, wherever he ettles, is not only a freeman, but a legilator, ubi imperator, ibi Roma. ''As the Englih Colonits are not repreented in the Britih Parliament, they are entitled to a free and excluive power of legilation in their everal legilatures, in all caes of Taxation and internal polity, ubject only to the negative of the Sovereign, in uch manner as has been heretofore ued and accutomed. We cheerfully conent to the operation of uch acts of the Britih Parliament as are bona fide retrained to the regulation of our external commerce—excluding every idea of Taxation, internal or external, for raiing a revenue on the ubjects of America without their conent''.