...lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such a power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, is illegal, unconstitutional and unjust, and has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as...

...lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such a power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, is illegal, unconstitutional and unjust, and has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as...

...lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such a power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, is illegal, unconstitutional and unjust, and has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as...

...hath been constantly recognized by the king and people of Great Britain. "Resolved, therefore, That the General Assembly of this colony have the sole...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom. ' ' On the back of the paper containing those resolutions, and found among Henry's papers after his...

...Britain. " Resolved, therefore, That the general assembly of this colony have the sole right ai id power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom. " On the back of the paper containing those resolutions, is the following endorsement, which is also...

...every attempt to vest this power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general a«semhly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.' [Life of Patrick Henry. p. 57.] ' The reader will remark,' says Mr. Wirt, ' that the first four resolutions...

...motion were five in number; the last and strongest of which was as follows. " Resolved, therefore, that the general assembly of this colony have the sole...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." This single sentence, in fact, involved the entire principle of the subsequent struggle. The following...

...hath been constantly recognized by the King and people of Great Britain. " Resolved, therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the sole...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." " On the back of the paper containing these resolutions, is the following endorsement, which is also...

...hath been constantly recognized by the king and people of Great Britain. '.Resolved, therefore, That the general assembly of this colony have the sole...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." "On the back of the paper containing those resolutions, is the following endorsement, which is also...

...'Resolved, therefore, That the general assembly of this colony have the sole right and power to laytaxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony;...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." "On the back of the paper• containing those resolutions, is the following endorsement, which is also...