 | Bryan Edwards - 1793 - 532 pages
...and muft alter with it. 3d. It is no fmall fatisfaction that the people, by their reprefentatives, have a deliberative power in the making of laws; the negative and barely refolving power being not according to the rights of Englishmen, and pra&ifcd no where but in thofe... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1805 - 464 pages
...distance of the place renders the present method of passing laws wholly impracticable. fithly. That the nature of all colonies is changeable, and consequently...must be adapted to the interest of the place, and alter with it. ythly. That thereby they lose the satisfaction of a deliberative power in making laws.... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1918 - 316 pages
...inapplicable to its case. It was no small satisfaction that the people by their representatives should have a deliberative power in the making of laws ;...resolving power being not according to the rights of Englishmen.3 Amongst the laws which the Assembly was expected to pass en bloc was one for raising a... | |
 | William James Gardner - 1873 - 558 pages
...secured the privileges which belonged to them as British subjects. Earnestly they had contended for " a deliberative power in the making of laws ; the negative...being not according to the rights of Englishmen." The justice of the plea was conceded. These men, with all their faults (and they were by no means untainted... | |
 | 1884 - 178 pages
...from England was considered ; that the nature of all colonies being changeable, the laws consequently must be adapted to the interest of the place, and must alter with it ; that the people would thereby lose the satisfaction, which through their representatives they had... | |
 | William James Gardner - 1909 - 556 pages
...secured the privileges which belonged to them as British subjects. Earnestly they had contended for " a deliberative power in the making of laws ; the negative...being not according to the rights of Englishmen." The justice of the plea was conceded. These men, with all their faults (and they were by no means untainted... | |
 | Arthur Percival Newton - 1917 - 162 pages
...their rights should be lost, so long as they were within the dominions of the Kingdom of England. ... It is no small satisfaction that the people by their...power being not according to the rights of Englishmen. . . . We hope that ... his Majesty may be induced to give an instruction to your excellency to pass... | |
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The nature of all colonies is changeable, and consequently the laws must be adapted to the interest of the place, and must alter with it. 