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carry their freedom with them, and claim a right to the 

 same or similar privileges that exist within the pale 

 of the mother country, A thousand Englishmen leave 

 England and settle on an island in another hemi- 

 sphere. How shall they bee governed? Not by the 

 Queen alone — for the Queen of England is no 

 despot ; not by Parliament — for they are not repre- 

 sented in Parliament. Therefore the spirit of the 

 Constitution is obliged to grant to them and their 

 heirs the forms of the Constitution ; and they must 

 govern themselves, accordingly, like the rest of their 

 fellow-subjects, with the consent of the common 

 Executive. If, then, they have a charter, or a right 

 without a charter, to be governed in this manner, 

 where is there room for the Parliament of another 

 part of the empire — in which their property does not 

 lie, where they themselves do not reside, wherein 

 they are neither actually nor virtually represented — 

 to legislate absolutely for them ? They insist that 

 they have a right to be governed by those only 

 who, according to the provisions of the Constitution, 

 represent them — that they are not represented 

 actually in the British Parhament, because they 

 depute no member to that assembly — and that they 

 are not represented virtually in the British Parlia- 

 ment, for the best of all reasons, that they are 



