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ANSWER

to the

DECLARATION

of the

AMERICAN CONGRESS.

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ARTICLE I.

ARTICLE I.

He has refuſed his aſſent to laws, the moſt wholeſome and neceſſary for the public good.

ANSWER.

To give force to the Colonial laws in general, the aſſent of the King not neceſſary.Quod dedit principium adveniens?—From the very outſet we may judge of the candor of the Congreſs.—Let any man, unacquainted with the conſtitution of America, but aſk his ſelf, what concluſion he would draw from the peruſal of this article? Would he not naturally conclude ſuch to be the conſtitution of America, that the King was of neceſſity a party in every Act of Colonial Legiſlation; that no law could

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