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4569. LEGISLATION, The colonists and.—

To continue their [the Colonists] connection
with the friends whom they had left,
they arranged themselves by charters of compact
under the same common king, who thus
completed their powers of full and perfect legislation
and became the link of union between
the several parts of the empire.—
Declaration on Taking up Arms. Ford ed., i, 465.
(July. 1775)