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might find the law for resisting tyranny. It has always been the custom of England, answered Selden, and the custom of England is the law of the land. My lords, said Lord Gower with contemptuous sneers, let the Americans talk about their natural and divine rights! their rights as men and citizens! their rights from God and nature! I am for enforcing these measures. Rochford held Lord Chatham, jointly with the Americans, responsible in his own person for disagreeable consequences. Lyttelton reproached Chatham with spreading the fire of sedition, and the Americans with designing to Chap. XVIII.} 1775. Jan. 20. emancipate themselves from the act of navigation. Chatham closed the debate as he had opened it, by insisting on the right of Great Britain to regulate the commerce of the whole empire; but as to the right of the Americans to exemption from taxation, except by their implied or express assent, they derived it from God, nature, and the British constitution. Franklin