our fellow subjects in Britain, and that no pow-
er on earth has a right to take our property
from us without our consent.

THAT we claim all the benefits secured to the
subject by the English constitution, and parti-
cularly that inestimable one of trial by jury.

THAT we hold it essential to English Liberty,
that no man be condemned unheard, or punish-
ed for supposed offences, without having an
opportunity of making his defence.

THAT we think the Legislature of Great-
Britain is not authorized by the constitution to
establish a religion, fraught with sanguinary and
impious tenets, or, to erect an arbitrary form
of government in any quarter of the globe.
These rights, we, as well as you, deem sacred.
And yet sacred as they are, they have, with
many others, been repeatedly and flagrantly
violated.

ARE not the Proprietors of the soil of Great-
Britain Lords of their own property? can it be
taken from them without their consent? will
they yield it to the arbitrary disposal of any
man, or number of men whatever? -- You
know they will not.

WHY then are the Proprietors of the soil of
America less Lords of their property than you
are of yours, or why should they submit it to
the disposal of your Parliament, or any other
Parliament, or Council in the world, not of