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N.S. Wales

7 July 1802

Conduct
III. Non-existence proved

55 60
Conclusion
Either there is no
legislative authority
in N.S. Wales or
the Constitution is at
an end and there
is none in Britain.

But That this all collateral questions dismissed, then on the ground of law, stands the
Government of New South Wales. Over Britons or Irishmen in or out of Great Britain and Ireland.
The King, not being of himself such possessed
of legislative power, can conferr none. If he
could To conferr Conferring it on others, those others being
his instruments, placeable and displaceable by himself
at any time—is exactly the same thing as
possessing and receiving to possess and exercise it himself.

The displaceable instrument of the Crown—the
The successive Governors of New South Wales—
have, for this fourteen years past, been exercising
legislative power, without any authority from Parliament:
and either without any authority at all from any
body, or at most without any authority but from
the Crown King: and all along they have been—as it was
most fit they should be—placed and displaceable
at his Majesty's pleasure.

And among them, over whom authority legislative power has that
been exercised, have been individuals by hundreds,+ or, even thus, by thousands who
who soever so far from submitting to subjecting themselves to this
power by their own consent, or having been subjected
to it by any consent on the part of their
ancestors under whom they were bred and born and bred, have all along been doing their utmost
to escape get out of the reach of it: and it is
this very absence of consent—the very energy and notoriety this notorious repugnance
of their repugnance— is among the very grounds on which in+
the most a multitude of instances, the power thus exercised
over them has been justified would, if at all, be
justified.

+the most important
case of all, that
of confining to this
land of bondage such
of them as are free
by law.

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Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
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