“...be it enacted by the King's most
excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said colonies
and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be,
subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial Crown and
Parliament of Great Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons...had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and
authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity
to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of
Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever. And be it further declared
and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all resolutions, votes,
orders, and proceedings, in any of the said colonies or plantations,
whereby the power and authority of the Parliament of Great Britain,
to make laws and statutes aforesaid, is denied, or drawn into
question, are, and are hereby declared to be, utterly null and void
to all intents and purposes whatsoever.”
George III, March 18,1766
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