... effected, the cause of the peculiarity of their constitution ceases “79 If the charters can be pleaded against the authority of parliament, they amount to an alienation of the dominions of Great Britain, ... assemblies, planters and merchants of the first fortune and character, and lawyers of the highest class, many of them educated at the temple, called to the bar in England, and of abilities and integrity ... newspapers and political pamphlets; that the dominions of the king of Great Britain have no power coextensive with them I would ask, by what law the parliament has authority over America? By the law of...