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them, and as it is only in a Meeting of the People that their Sense respecting such Petition and Remonstrance can be obtained, that the Right of assembling is as undoubt- ed. Is attempt, therefore, under the Mask of Authority, to prevent or forbid a Meeting of the People for such Purposes, or to inter- rupt their Proceedings when met, would be a Effort unduly to exercise Pow- er in direct Opposition to the Constitution. far be it from us then, Sir, even to wish to prevent the Operations of the Con- vention now held at Newbern, or to agree with your excellency in bestowing upon them the injurious Epithet of an illegal Meeting. They are, Sir, the respectable Repre- sentatives of the People, appointed for a speci- al and important Purpose, to which, though our Constituents might have thought us ade- quate, yet as our Meeting depended upon the Pleasure of the Crown, they would have been universe to have busted to so precarious a Contingence, especially as the frequent and unexpected Prorogations of the Assembly, one of them in particular, as if all Respect and Attention to the Convenience of their 29 ed. To attempt, therefor, under the Mask rust their Proceedings when met, would be a vain Effort unduly to exercise Pow- er in direct Opposition to the Constitution mention now held at Newburn, or to agree Meeting. They are, sir, the respectable Repre- sensations of the People, appointed for a speci- our Constituents might have thought us ade- quite, yet as our Meeting depended upon have been unwise to have trusted to so precarious a Continence, especially as the frequent and unexpected Prerogatives of the
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