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monstrate the insufficiency and illegality of the Precedents which have been cited to justify the fatal pretension of England to govern Ireland, and the other Colonies, without the Representation and assent of the respective inhabitants; for we might as well enquire “what would have been the answer of the English Legislature the year 1653," (when the whole Legislature was comprised within the narrow compass of Cromwell’s
