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$On the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament$
$James Wilson$
$Philadelphia?, August 1774$
$From "The Selected Political Essays of James Wilson, edited by Randolph Adams$
$Footnotes in square brackets, italics in curly brackets$
$A.C.D.$
ON THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT
No question can be more important to Great Britain, and
to the colonies, than this - does the legislative authority of
the British parliament extend over them?
On the resolution of this question, and on the measures
which a resolution of it will direct, it will depend, whether
the Parent Country, like a happy Mother, shall behold her
Children flourishing around her, and receive the most grateful
returns for her protection and love; or whether, like a
step-dame, rendered miserable by her own unkind conduct, she
shall see their affections alienated, and herself deprived of
those advantages which a milder treatment would have ensured to
her.
The British nation are generous: they love . . .
