...through all the consequences." Pa. 23. 3dly. The writer of the letters says, '-we are as much dependant on Great Britain, as a perfectly free people can be on another." On this the author of the controversy kindly observes that "it is a pity the learned editor (the English...

...to preside and preserve the connection in due order. This power is lodged in the Parliament, and we are as much dependent on Great Britain as a perfectly free people can be on another. I have looked over every statute relating to these colonies from their first settlement to this time,...

...to preside, and preserve the connection in due order. This power is lodged in the Parliament; and we are as much dependent on Great Britain, as a perfectly free people can be on another. I have looked over every statute relating to these Colonies, from their first settlement to this time;...

...preside, and preserve the connection in due order. This power is lodged in the s parliament; and we are as much dependent on Great Britain, as a perfectly free people can be on another. I have looked over every statute relating to these colonies, from their first settlement to this time;...

...connexion in due order. This power is lodged in the Par10 PRE-CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY liament: and we are as much dependent on Great Britain as a perfectly free people can be on another."2 Historian Samuel Eliot Morison observes that this remark "shows that Dickinson was moving,...

...differences of obedience and freedom, power and law. Characteristically, "Letter II" notes that "we are as much dependent on Great Britain. as a perfectly free people can be on another." "The legal authority of Great-Britain " runs "Letter XII," is "like the spear of Telephus, it will...

...(111:18). Even then, Dickinson refused to contemplate formal rupture between England and her colonies: "we are as much dependent on Great Britain, as a perfectly free people can be on another" (11:8). "[W]here shall we find another Britain to supply our loss?" he asked, deploring the possibility...

...to preside, and preserve the connection in due order. This power is lodged in the parliament; and we This will cement the Union, and avoid those Heats and perhaps Convulsions which migh I have looked over every statute relating to these colonies, from their first settlement to this time;...