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however, every idea of its interposition in the 
concerns of internal legislation, and all other mat¬ 
ters to which the colonial assemblies are sufficient¬ 
ly competent; for, to the reasons already stated 
for this absolute exclusion, may be added, the ut¬ 
ter impossibility that two different legislatures can, 
at all times, and in the same moment, enforce their 
authority on the same object, inasmuch as they 
thought to bear bard upon the rights of the colonists. By the jth 
Geo. II. c. 7, in consequence of some petitions from different bo¬ 
dies of English merchants, complaining that the colonial laws afford¬ 
ed but an inadequate remedy for the recovery of debts; it is enacted, 
“ that lands, houses, negroes, and other hereditaments, and all real 
“ estate whatever, should be liable to, and chargeable with, all debts, 
** due e ther to the king, or any of his subjects, and be assets for the 
“ satisfaction thereof.” And by the 24th Geo. II. c. 53, the go- 
“ vernors and assemblies of the respective provinces are restrained 
“ from passing any act, order, resolution, or vote, whereby paper 
bills, or bills of credit, shall be increased or issued.” As both 
these laws were passed in favour of English merchants, who had ad¬ 
vanced money for the use of the colonists, it was thought dishonour¬ 
able to object to the regulations which they established. The laws 
were therefore submitted to, but not without murmurs on the part of 
the provincial legislatures, who considered them as infringing their 
liberties. Their submission to them, though on very laudable princi¬ 
ples, was afterwards quoted against them, and assigned as the best of 
all possible reasons for requiring unconditional submission on all 
other occasions. 
From what has been said above, and what will hereafter be stated 
on the subject of the commercial system, the reader will be enabled 
to form some idea of the boundary contended for, between a consti¬ 
tutional, superintending, cor.troling power in the Biitish parliament, 
and a system of perfect unqualified tyranny, the power of binding the. 
colonies in all cases whatsoever. 
