Writings and Speeches, Volume 2Little Brown and Company, 1901 |
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... are , according to him , to consult our inven- tion , and to reject our experience . The mode of de- liberation he recommends is diametrically opposite to every rule of reason and every principle of good sense SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... are , according to him , to consult our inven- tion , and to reject our experience . The mode of de- liberation he recommends is diametrically opposite to every rule of reason and every principle of good sense SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
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... mode of using it was absolutely new in policy and practice . Sir , they who are friends to the schemes of Amer- ican revenue say , that the commercial restraint is full as hard a law for America to live under . I think so , too . I ...
... mode of using it was absolutely new in policy and practice . Sir , they who are friends to the schemes of Amer- ican revenue say , that the commercial restraint is full as hard a law for America to live under . I think so , too . I ...
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... mode of taxation as the ground of an act of Parliament . But he never could have proposed that they should tax themselves on re- quisition , which is the assertion of the day . Indeed , Mr. Grenville well knew that the colony agents ...
... mode of taxation as the ground of an act of Parliament . But he never could have proposed that they should tax themselves on re- quisition , which is the assertion of the day . Indeed , Mr. Grenville well knew that the colony agents ...
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... mode of Parliamentary taxation . What was the consequence ? They were suppressed , they were put under the table , notwithstanding an or- der of Council to the contrary , by the ministry which composed the very Council that had made the ...
... mode of Parliamentary taxation . What was the consequence ? They were suppressed , they were put under the table , notwithstanding an or- der of Council to the contrary , by the ministry which composed the very Council that had made the ...
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... us , we shall embrace the first convenient opportunity to consider and act upon . " They did consider ; they did act upon it . They obeyed the requisition . I know the mode has been chicaned 60 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... us , we shall embrace the first convenient opportunity to consider and act upon . " They did consider ; they did act upon it . They obeyed the requisition . I know the mode has been chicaned 60 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
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