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8314. TAXATION, Redress of grievances and.—

The privilege of giving or withholding
our moneys is an important barrier
against the undue exertion of prerogative,
* * * and all history shows how efficacious
its intercession [is] for redress of grievances
and reestablishment of rights, and how improvident
would be the surrender of so powerful
a mediator.—
Reply to Lord North's Proposition. Ford ed., i, 477.
(July. 1775)