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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
Privy Council had a right to levy taxes on the inhabitants of that island, the crown lawyers, Lord Hardwicke, then Sir Philip Yorke, and Sir Clement Wearg, Opinions of eminent Lawyers. i. 223. Mansfield's opinion in the case of Campbell v. Hall. made the memorable reply, that a colony of English subjects cannot be taxed but by some representative body of their own, or by the parliament of England. That opinion impressed itself early and deeply on the mind of Lord Mansfield, and in October, 1744, when the neglect of Pennsylvania to render aid in the war had engaged the attention of the ministry, Sir Dudley Rider and Lord Mansfield, then William Murray, declared, that a colonial assembly cannot be compelled to do more towards their own defence than they shall see fit, unless by the force of an act of parliament, which alone can prescribe rules of conduct for them. Chalmers' Introduction, Ms. II. 86. Away, then, with all attempts to compel by prerogative, to govern by instruct