La Hongrie de l'Adriatique au Danube

Brauerei F. A. Ulrich, Leipzig

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Author:: Tissot, Victor http://d-nb.info/gnd/117628085

Title:: La Hongrie de l'Adriatique au Danube

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Plon

Year of publication:: 1883

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Title:: Chapitre XXVI

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’ Essays 115 Q. Don't you know that there is in the Pennsyl- vania charter an express reservation of the right of Parliament to lay taxes there? A. I know there is a clause in the charter by which the King grants that he will levy no taxes on the inhabitants, unless it be with the consent of the assembly or by act of Parliament. Q. How, then, could the assembly of Pennsyl- vania assert that laying a tax on them by the Stamp Act was an infringement of their rights? A. They understand it thus: by the same charter, and otherwise, they are entitled to all privileges and liberties of Englishmen. They find in the Great Charters and the Petition and Declaration of Rights that one of the privileges of English subjects is, that they are not to be taxed but by their common con- sent. They have, therefore, relied upon it from the first settlement of the province, that the Parliament never would, nor could, by color of that clause in the charter assume a right of taxing them till it had qualified itself to exercise such right by admitting representatives from the people to be taxed, who ought to make a part of that common consent. Q. Are there any words in the charter that justify that construction? A. “The common rights of Englishmen,” as de- clared by Magna Charta, and the Petition of Right, all justify it. Q. Does the distinction between internal and ex- ternal taxes exist in the words of the charter? A. No, I believe not. Q. Then, may they not, by the same interpreta- 766]

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