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Excerpt from Lexington Town Meetings From 1765 to 1775: From Hudson's History of Lexington, Embodying the Resolutions and Instructions of the Town Meetings
But by this Act a tax, yea, a heavy tax, is imposed, not only without and beside the authority of said General Court in which this power, which has never been forfeited nor given up, is said to be fully and exclusively lodged, but also in direct opposition to an essential right or privilege of free and natural subjects of Great Britain, who look upon it as their darling and constitutional-right never to be taxed but by their own consent, in person or by their Representatives. It is vain to pretend (as has been pretended) that we are virtually or in any just sense, represented in Parliament, when it is well known that, so 'far from this, our humble petitions and decent remonstrances, prepared and sent home by the representative body of this people, were not admitted a hearing in Parliament, even at the time when those measures and acts from which we apprehend so much, were depending in the Hon. House, of Commons, - a hardship which greatly adds to the grievance, and seems to intimate that we have but too little to hope in consequence of the most humble and dutiful steps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
