of Rights.
WE cannot help thinking, that an Enu-
meration of some of the most open In-
fringements of our Rights, will be every candid
Person be judged sufficient to justify whatever
Measures have been already taken, or may be
thought proper to be taken, in order to obtain
a Redress of the Grievances under which we
labour. Among many others, we humbly
con-
ceive, that the following will not fail to excite
the Attention of all who consider themselves
interested in the Happiness and Freedom of
Mankind in general, and of this Continent and
Province in particular.
1st. The British Parliament have assumed the
Powers of Legislation for the Colonists in all
Cases whatsoever, without obtaining the Con-
sent of the Inhabitants, which is ever essentially
necessary to the rightful Establishment of such
a Legislative.
2dly. They have exerted that assumed Power,
in raising a Revenue in the Colonies without
their Consent; thereby depriving them of that
Right which every Man has to keep his own