On the legislative authority of the British Parliament
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | Wilson, James, 1742-1798 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | s.l. |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:32:40Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:32:40Z |
| dc.date.created | 1774 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3136 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3136 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3136 |
| dc.description.abstract | Essay first published 1774 |
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| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Great Britiain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820 |
| dc.title | On the legislative authority of the British Parliament |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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On the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament
by
James Wilson
from “The Selected Political Essays of James Wilson, edited by Randolph Adams”
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 to enjoy freedom: they love to behold it: Slavery is their greatest abhorrence. Is it possible, then, tha . . .
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