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Delegate to the first Continental Congress who told his fellow delegates, “The difficulty is to establish a
Principle upon which we can submit this Authority to Parliament without the Danger of a hurtful Precedent their pleading a Right to bind in all Cases whatsoever.” |
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| Attorney General of Massachusetts, imperial judge of admiralty, and one of the best colonial lawyers, this man stayed loyal to British crown after the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Author of The Most Excellent Privilege of Liberty & Property Being the Birth-Right of the Freeborn Subjects of England. |
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| Colonial agent to Parliament for Rhode Island who objected to legislation on the ground that it “would effect the said charter, and some of the most valuable privileges thereby granted to the inhabitants of the said colony.” |
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| English treatise writer who thought the suspension of the New York General assembly designed to carry “into effect” the “authority” of the Declaratory Act, and the Tea Act. |
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| First Continental Congress delegate who went further than other American whigs with his notion of “Compact” with “the Necessity of a Supreme controuling Power.” |
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| First Continental Congress delegate who would “cheerfully acknowledge that it [regulation of trade] belongs only to Parliament to direct & superintend the Trade of all his Majesty’s Dominions.” |
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| Future U.S. Supreme Court justice wrote, “The members of parliament, their families, their friends, their posterity must be subject, as well as others, to the laws.” |
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| Later known for his beer, this Massachusetts man did not question Parliament’s “right to make laws for the regulation of the trade of the colonies” in 1772. |
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| Man who quoted James Duane as saying “Justice requires that we should expressly ceed to Parliament the Right of regulating Trade.” |
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| Massachusetts colonial governor. |
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| Moved in the New York Assembly that the British Mutiny Act was a “high enfringement of the freedom of the inhabitants of this Colony and tends to deprive then of their natural and constitutional rights and privileges.” |
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| New York delegate to the first Continental Congress who argued that the colonies had “submitted to an acquiesced in its Authority [Parliament] for more than a Century.” |
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| President of the United States from New Hampshire that thought that the Loyalist slogan was “Be Slaves and Die.” |
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| This Pennsylvanian wrote that the Mutiny Act was Parliament asserting “the supreme Authority of the British legislature over the colonies.” |
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| This Virginia burgess called the Boston Port Act a “shallow Ministerial device” and a “common danger” to the colonies. |
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| Wrote that the rule of law meant “to govern by promulgated establish’d Laws, not to be varied in particular Cases.” |
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| Wrote that there was but “one Rule for Rich and Poor, for the Favourite at Court, and the Country Man at Plough.” |
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| Wrote that “Even absolute Power, where it is necessary, is not Arbitrary by being absolute, but is still limited by that reason, and confined to these ends, which required it in some Cases to be absolute.” |
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| Wrote that “the glory of the English law consists in clearly defining the times, the causes, and the extent, wherefore, and to what degree, the imprisonment of the subject my be lawful.” |
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