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 between him that is taxed by compulion without repreentation, and him that is repreented by compulion in order to be taxed?

many reigns the Houe of Commons was in a tate of fluctuation: new burgees were added from time to time, without any reaon now to be dicovered; but the number has been fixed for more than a century and a half, and the king’s power of increaing it has been quetioned. It will hardly be thought fit to new-model the contitution in favour of the planters, who, as they grow rich, may buy etates in England, and without any innovation, effectually repreent their native colonies.

friends of the Americans indeed ak for them what they do not ak for themelves. This inetimable right of repreentation they have never olicited. They