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<head>New Wales</head> | |||
<note>Right wanting</note> | |||
<p>side of the question is what I must take the<lb/> | |||
liberty to dispute</p> | |||
<p><add>For</add> Of money which is <add>to be</add> <del>taken from</del> collected by<lb/> | |||
taxes, that is which is to be taken from the contributors<lb/> | |||
by force, and without <add>and even against</add> their consent,<lb/> | |||
for it is that which <del>alone</del> distinguishes a tax<lb/> | |||
from a voluntary contribution, I know no legitimate<lb/> | |||
destination but the application of it to the<lb/> | |||
purposes of common defence: defence against foreign<lb/> | |||
enemies, defence against domestic disturbers,<lb/> | |||
and defence against <add>calamities, which are the hostilities</add> <del>the hostile powers</del> of nature.</p> | |||
<p>I am not sorry to plead the original contract.<lb/> | |||
I can build <add>I</add> hope without taking fiction and<lb/> | |||
nonsense for my foundation: but if government<lb/> | |||
be a trust, and there be such a thing on the part<lb/> | |||
of government as a breach of trust, the disbursment<lb/> | |||
in question seems to be of the number of<lb/> | |||
those which came within the idea. I do not<lb/> | |||
say it is what the people have not consented<lb/> | |||
to: one might say <add>just the same thing might one say</add> the same thing of the <add>any</add><lb/> | |||
most necessary expenditure — They have given<lb/> | |||
their consent to any thing — how should they?<lb/> | |||
<del>they</del> when they are never asked? when they<lb/> | |||
know of nothing till it is done. But would<lb/> | |||
they</p> | |||
New Wales Right wanting
side of the question is what I must take the
liberty to dispute
For Of money which is to be taken from collected by
taxes, that is which is to be taken from the contributors
by force, and without and even against their consent,
for it is that which alone distinguishes a tax
from a voluntary contribution, I know no legitimate
destination but the application of it to the
purposes of common defence: defence against foreign
enemies, defence against domestic disturbers,
and defence against calamities, which are the hostilities the hostile powers of nature.
I am not sorry to plead the original contract.
I can build I hope without taking fiction and
nonsense for my foundation: but if government
be a trust, and there be such a thing on the part
of government as a breach of trust, the disbursment
in question seems to be of the number of
those which came within the idea. I do not
say it is what the people have not consented
to: one might say just the same thing might one say the same thing of the any
most necessary expenditure — They have given
their consent to any thing — how should they?
they when they are never asked? when they
know of nothing till it is done. But would
they
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