But the privileges of an American ſcorn the limits of place; they are part of himſelf, and cannot be loſt by departure from his country; they float in the air, or glide under the ocean.
Doris amara ſuam non intermiſceat undam.
A planter, wherever he ſettles, is not only a freeman, but a legiſlator, ubi imperator, ibi Roma. As the Engliſh Coloniſts are not repreſented in the Britiſh Parliament, they are entitled to a free and excluſive power of legiſlation in their ſeveral legiſlatures, in all caſes of Taxation and internal polity, ſubject only to the negative of the Sovereign, in ſuch manner as has been heretofore uſed and accuſtomed. We cheerfully conſent to the operation of ſuch acts of the Britiſh Parliament as are bona fide reſtrained to the regulation of our external commerce—excluding every idea of Taxation, internal or external, for raiſing a revenue on the ſubjects of America without their conſent.
