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thence with respect to the present question, (viz. the pretension to bind Ireland without Representation or Assent;) because it affords as good an argument, as the others above-mentioned, for binding even England itself, without any Representation or Assent at all, since the said Legislature (as it is called) was totally defective in every point that is essentially necessary to constitute an English Legislature; for (besides the total suppression of the legal Rights of the Crown to a Share in the Legislature) even the necessary Assent of the whole body of the People was also excluded, since it is evident that neither the Lords nor the Commons of England were represented in that packed junto of Hypocrites which was then called the “English legislature!” for, after the violent seizure of 41 Members of the House of Commons (38) by the Army, on