Speech of Mr Rayner of North Carolina On the Question of the Reception of Abo
Speech of Mr Rayner of North Carolina On the Question of the Reception of Abo
Kenneth Rayner
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Does any one here believe, that such a petition would receive countenance from the Common-s of England ? So far from it, it would place in peril the petitioner's head. This right of petition, secured to the people of England by the bill of rights, was claimed and exercised before the Kevolution, by these colonies, as a component part of the British realm. Anil the grounds upon which its vio- lation was complained of, during the early struggles of the colonies against the tyranny of the mother c...ountry, was, not that their petitions were not receiv- ed, but that " large bodies of armed troops were quartered among them, " for the purpose of overawing their deliberations, and of interrupting tiieir peaceful assemblages, when quietly convened, for the purpose of consulting for iheir common good. This is one of the grievances set Ibrth in the Declaration of Independence, a protection against which was afterwards incorjiorated in our fundamental law. Judging, then, from the history of this question, and tiie probable motives which caused its insertion in the ('onsiiliition, it has refer- ence to the acts and personal security of the petitioners — their right to as- semble together, to consult for their common good — io send on their petitions hx presentation, if you please, and not to any obligation on the part of the petitioned to
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