The Constitutional Right of the Legislature of Great Britain, to Tax the British Colonies in America, Impartially Stated.
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1768 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
A scathing attack on colonial claims, this article excoriates Parliamentarians like William Pitt who aided and abetted American errors, as practitioners of the lowly “arts of prostitution and cabal.” Through such encouragement and “by uninterrupted habit,” colonials have come “to think their corporation assemblies” as “no less than parliaments.” But precedent upholds only one principal: “That the interest of a part, ought to give way to the interest of the whole—Great Britain is that whole.”
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