United States

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Identifikator:: 1795102764

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179770

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: United States

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: VII, 112 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Benjamin Franklin [1766 very little concern, if they are never attempted to be carried into practice. The colonies will probably consider themselves in the same situation, in that respect, with Ireland; they know you claim the same right with regard to Ireland; but you never exercise it, and they may believe you never will exercise it in the colonies, any more than in Ireland, unless on some very extraordinary occasion. Q. But who are to be the judges of that extraor- dinary occasion? Is not the Parliament? A. Though the Parliament may judge of the occa- sion, the people will think it can never exercise such right, till representatives from the colonies are admit- ted into Parliament; and that, whenever the occasion arises, representatives will be ordered. QO. Did you ever hear that Maryland, during the last war, had refused to furnish a quota towards the common defence? A. Maryland has been much misrepresented in this matter. Maryland, to my knowledge, never re- fused to contribute or grant aids to the crown. The assemblies, every year during the war, voted con- siderable sums, and formed bills to raise them. The bills were, according to the constitution of that pro- vince, sent up to the Council, or Upper House, for concurrence, that they might be represented to the governor, in order to be enacted into laws. Un- happy disputes between the two Houses, arising from the defects of that constitution principally, rendered all the bills but one or two abortive. The proprietary’s council rejected them. It is true, Maryland did not then contribute its proportion; 4

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