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7799. SELF-GOVERNMENT, Usurpation and.—

[The] exercises of usurped power
[by Parliament] have not been confined to
instances alone in which themselves were interested,
but they have also intermeddled with
the regulation of the internal affairs of the
Colonies.—
Rights of British America. Washington ed. i, 130. Ford ed., i, 434.
(1774)