be over-ruled is highly probable: but power is no ſufficient evidence of truth. Let us examine our own claim, and the objections of the recuſants, with caution proportioned to the event of the deciſion, which muſt convict one part of robbery, or the other of rebellion.
A tax is a payment exacted by authority from part of the community for the benefit of the whole. From whom, and in what proportion ſuch payment ſhall be required, and to what uſes it ſhall be applied, thoſe only are to judge to whom government is intruded. In the Britiſh dominion taxes are apportioned, levied, and appropriated by the ſtates aſſembled in parliament.
Of every empire all the ſubordinate communities are liable to taxation, becauſe they all ſhare the benefits of government, and therefore ought all to furniſh their proportion of the expence.
