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7279. REPRESENTATION, Government without.—

Shall these governments be dissolved, their property annihilated, and
their people reduced to a state of nature, at
the imperious breath of a body of men whom
they never saw, in whom they never confided,
and over whom they have no powers of punishment
or removal, let their crimes against
the American public be ever so great?—
Rights of British America. Washington ed. i, 131. Ford ed., i, 436.
(1774)