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6404. PARLIAMENT, Jurisdiction of.—[continued].

He [George III.] has
endeavored to pervert the exercise of the kingly
office in Virginia into a detestable and insupportable
tyranny * * * by combining with
others to subject us to a foreign jurisdiction,
giving his assent to their pretended acts of legislation.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Ford ed., ii, 10.
(June. 1776)