8305. TAXATION, Parliamentary.—[further continued].
Congress are of opinion
* * * that the suspension of the exercise of
their [Parliament's] pretended power of taxation
being expressly made commensurate with
the continuing of our gifts, these must be perpetual
to make that so: whereas no experience
has shown that a gift of perpetual revenues secures
a perpetual return of duty or of kind
dispositions. On the contrary, the parliament
itself, wisely attentive to this observation, are
in the established practice of granting their
own money from year to year only.—
Reply to Lord North's Proposition.
Ford ed., i, 478.
(July. 1775)
