Political Propositions
- Y. Z. (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
One copy of this text contains a note naming a certain “Dr. Sutcliffe” as the author. This text rebuts the idea that legislation is inseparable from taxation, asserting that practices affirmed by general understanding can sustain all such distinctions “for the powers of governors are just so much as, and can be no more than such compact gives them.” Citing the 40 shilling minimum to vote in England, and Locke on the social contract, the writer denies the authority to tax without representation.”
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The text of these 18th century pamphlets has been converted by machine from scanned PDFs of the original microfilm copies. While the text has been machine-proofed, transcription errors may still remain. For example, the 18th-century long S, ſ , may be rendered as “f,” some words may be incorrectly transcribed, and there may be repeated words or phrases.