On the legislative authority of the British Parliament / James Wilson
| dc.contributor | Greenstein, Dan AHDS Executive King’s College London London |
| dc.contributor.author | Wilson, James, 1742-1798 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | s.l. |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:01:43Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:01:43Z |
| dc.date.created | 1774 |
| dc.date.issued | 1994-01-12 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2024 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2024 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2024 |
| dc.description.abstract | Essay first published 1774 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Great Britiain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820 |
| dc.subject.other | Politics |
| dc.title | On the legislative authority of the British Parliament / James Wilson |
| dc.type | Text |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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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 . . .
