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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
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wary legislators were intent on maintaining their privileges. The laws founded on the charter of Penn they declare to be yet in force; we desire the same may be confirmed to us as our right and liberties.—If the laws, answered Fletcher, made by virtue of Mr. Penn's charter, be of force to you, and can be brought into competition with the great seal which commands me hither, I have no business here; and he pleaded the royal prerogative as inalienable. The grant of King Charles, replied Joseph Growdon, the speaker, is itself under the great seal. Is that charter in a lawful way at an end? To reconcile the difference, Fletcher proposed to reenact the greater number of the former laws. We are but poor men, said John White, and of inferior May 21. degree, and represent the people. This is our difficulty; we durst not begin to pass one bill to be enacted of our former laws, least by soe doing we declare the rest void. The royalists next started a technical objection: Chap. XIX.