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7286. REPRESENTATION, Right of.—[continued].

He [George III.] has
endeavored to pervert the exercise of the
kingly office in Virginia into a detestable and
insupportable tyranny * * * by refusing
to pass certain laws unless the persons to be
benefited by them would relinquish the inestimable
right of representation in the Legislature.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Ford ed., ii, 10.
(June. 1776)