I doubt the Regulating Duties will not be accepted, without enacting them, and having the Power of appointing the Collectors in the Colonies.

If we mean a hearty Reconciliation, we must deal candidly, and use no Tricks.

The Assemblies are many of them in a State of Dissolution. It will require Time to make new Elections; then to meet and chuse Delegates, supposing all could meet.

But the Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay cannot act under the new Constitution, nor meet the new Council for that purpose, without acknowledging the Power of Parliament to alter their Charter, which they never will do. The Language of the Proposal is, Try on your Fetters first, and then if you don’t like ’em, petition and we will consider.

Establishing Salaries for Judges may be a general Law. For Governors not so, the Constitutions of Colonies differing.

It is possible Troops may be sent to particular Provinces to burthen them when they are out of favour.

Canada: We cannot endure Despotism over any of our Fellow Subjects. We must all be free or none.