Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty

• Richard Price (author)
• Jack P. Greene (collection editor)

This essay proposed to retain America within the imperial structure by granting them the representation they lacked in Parliament through a general American Senate established to govern the “common concerns of the united states, and of judging and deciding between them, as a common Arbiter or Umpire.” The pamphlet went on to insist that civil societies may not “lawfully surrender their Civil Liberty, by giving up to any extraneous jurisdiction” the “power of legislating for themselves.”