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<p>The Colony had subsisted neither more nor less then<lb/> between two and three years when all of a sudden a <lb/>declaration <add> <gap/></add> of the Governor was issued establishing martial <lb/>law: <add>martial law</add> more that very name. Whatsoever may have been meant by <lb/>law. Martial law to fight what? — not an enemy (for <lb/>there was none) but famine: — and the chief consequence <lb/>as well as cause of this martial law is to take possession <lb/>of every man's property — to <del>put it at the disposal</del> take<lb/> it into the hands of the Governor — to declare it the property <lb/>of the state." </p> | <p>The Colony had subsisted neither more nor less then<lb/> between two and three years when all of a sudden a <lb/>declaration <add> <gap/></add> of the Governor was issued establishing martial <lb/>law: <add>martial law</add> more that very name. Whatsoever may have been meant by <lb/>law. Martial law to fight what? — not an enemy (for <lb/>there was none) but famine: — and the chief consequence <lb/>as well as cause of this martial law is to take possession <lb/>of every man's property — to <del>put it at the disposal</del> take<lb/> it into the hands of the Governor — to declare it the property <lb/>of the state." </p> | ||
<p>For this declaration of martial law — for this universal <lb/>seizure of all property — what warrant was there in the <lb/>Act? — None whatever: <add><del>not the</del></add> nothing like it in the Act? If this <lb/>could be done without Parliament, to what <del>other</del> purpose<lb/> could there be any <add>use or</add> necessity of applying <add>for powers</add> to Parliament? <lb/><note><del>legislative powers stretched to the extreme of <add>reason</add></del></note><lb/> | |||
14 July 1802 N. S. Wales 1
To what purpose then obtain from Parliament powers
to erect a Court of Judication for trying officers against
existing laws when none no prisons were obtained for making introducing
any new law much less for trying officers against such new
law? To what purpose, but to deci deceive put a
Parliament, and to persuade make Parliament and
his every body to believe that it came by Parliament
the Colony was founded, and that whatever acts of power
should be exercised there by the authority of the Kings
Servants to it be believed that these acts had Yor
this sanction the authority sanction of Parliament.
that Parliament had sanctioned the of the Colony and by its forms had sanctioned every thing that Investors chose to might ever take upon them to do towards or in pretence of establishment the foundation and support of it
The Colony had subsisted neither more nor less then
between two and three years when all of a sudden a
declaration of the Governor was issued establishing martial
law: martial law more that very name. Whatsoever may have been meant by
law. Martial law to fight what? — not an enemy (for
there was none) but famine: — and the chief consequence
as well as cause of this martial law is to take possession
of every man's property — to put it at the disposal take
it into the hands of the Governor — to declare it the property
of the state."
For this declaration of martial law — for this universal
seizure of all property — what warrant was there in the
Act? — None whatever: not the nothing like it in the Act? If this
could be done without Parliament, to what other purpose
could there be any use or necessity of applying for powers to Parliament?
legislative powers stretched to the extreme of reason
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