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TAXATION NO TYRANNY.
reduced to the ſtate of Engliſh counties, they had repreſentatives aſſigned them.
To thoſe from whom ſomething had been taken, ſomething in return might properly be given. To the Americans their Charters are left as they were, nor have they lofſt any thing except that of which their ſedition has deprived them. If they were to be repreſented in Parliament, ſomething would be granted, though nothing is withdrawn.
The inhabitants of Cheſter, Durham, and Wales, were invited to exchange their peculiar inſtitutions for the power of voting, which they wanted before. The Americans have voluntarily reſigned the power of voting, to live in diſtant and ſeparate governments, and what they have voluntarily quitted, they have no right to claim.
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