An Inquiry into the Principles cf 'Taxation. 3 



armies muft be provided ; to fupport domeftic 

 peace, to adminiftcr diftributive juftice, and to 

 regulate the police of cities and diftridts, civil 

 officers of various ranks and denominations are to 

 be maintained and remunerated : And confider- 

 able funds will be required for the encouragement 

 of fcience, the advancement of arts, and the ex- 

 tenfion of commerce. Thus multiplied and com- 

 plicated are the juft and neceffary charges of 

 government. 



The moral obligation to pay taxes refults from 

 the ALLEGIANCE due to the fovereign power, for 

 the PROTECTION which it affords to life, liberty 

 and property ; and for the energy which it exerts 

 in the promotion of order, induftry, virtue and 

 happinefs. 



This obligation is common to the fubjefts of 

 every government} but under the happy confti- 

 tution of Great Britain, where fubfidies are never 

 claimed by the fupreme magillrate, without the 

 confent of parliament, we become bound, by a 

 VOLUNTARY COMPACT, made by our delegates, 

 to contribute to the public exigencies, in fuch 

 proportions, and according to fuch modes, as they 

 have deliberately enafted. 



And, by the reflifal to grant fuch contributions, 



or by the evafion of them, we not only injure the 



public weal, but, indirectly, invade the property 



of our FELLOW-CITIZENS, who muft bear the bur- 



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