 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - United States - 1914 - 413 pages
...which they will claim, which they will exercise, whenever the principle can be supported by power. There is an idea in some that the Colonies are virtually...here? Is he represented by any knight of the shire 3 in any county in this kingdom ? Would to God that respectable representation was augmented to a greater... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - United States - 1914 - 413 pages
...which they will claim, which they will exercise, whenever the principle can be supported by power. There is an idea in some that the Colonies are virtually...represented here? Is he represented by any knight of the shire3 in any county in this kingdom? Would to God that respectable representation was augmented to... | |
 | Burr W. Phillips - 1921 - 236 pages
...whom Pitt was one of the leaders, v/ho ridiculed the British representative system. Pitt declared: "There is an idea in some that the colonies are virtually represented in this House. I would fain toiow by whom an American is represented here .... The idea of a tirtual representation in this House... | |
 | American School Citizenship League - United States - 1921
...taxed them. What did William Pitt say about the virtual representation of the colonies in Parliament? "There is an idea, in some, that the colonies are virtually represented in this House. They never have been represented at all in Parliament. . . . The idea of virtual representation in... | |
 | Basil Williams - Biography & Autobiography - 1966 - 432 pages
...absurdity in terms. i It had been argued by some that America was virtually represented in Parliament. ' I would fain know by whom an American is represented...represented by any knight of the shire, in any county of this kingdom ? ' Then, led by this train of thought to probe to the root of their own representative... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 920 pages
...he supported by power. There is an idea in some that the colonies are virtually represented in the House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented...respectable representation was augmented to a greater numher! Or will you tell him that he is represented by any representative of a borough? a borough which,... | |
 | David A. Copeland - History - 2000 - 397 pages
...your Majesty the property of your Majesty's commons of America. It is an absurdity in terms. . . . There is an idea in some, that the colonies are virtually...American is represented here. Is he represented by a Knight of a Shire of any county in this kingdom? Would to God that respectable representation were... | |
 | Janet Beer, Katherine Joslin - Social Science - 2002 - 1600 pages
...said : "This kingdom has no right to lay a tax on the. colonies. . . . There is an idea in some tftiit the colonies are virtually represented in this House....fain -know by whom an American is represented here. . . . The idea of a virtual representation of America in this House is the most contemptible that ever... | |
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