Impositions

Impositions like this, which may sound preposterous or at least unacceptably intrusive, have a way of taking hold as the politics of "life" work their way into official policies.

Letters: Beware US anti-abortion tactics in Britain 2011

Impositions like this, which may sound preposterous or at least unacceptably intrusive, have a way of taking hold as the politics of "life" work their way into official policies.

Letters: Beware US anti-abortion tactics in Britain 2011

Therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive Right and Power to lay Taxes and Impositions upon the Inhabitants of this Colony and that every Attempt to vest such Power in any Person or Persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest Tendency to destroy British as well as American Freedom.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive Right and Power to lay Taxes and Impositions upon the Inhabitants of this Colony and that every Attempt to vest such Power in any Person or Persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest Tendency to destroy British as well as American Freedom.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive Right and Power to lay Taxes and Impositions upon the Inhabitants of this Colony and that every Attempt to vest such Power in any Person or Persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest Tendency to destroy British as well as American Freedom.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive Right and Power to lay Taxes and Impositions upon the Inhabitants of this Colony and that every Attempt to vest such Power in any Person or Persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest Tendency to destroy British as well as American Freedom.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Commons vs. the Impositions they saw were about to be laid upon Us. Has not the Lieutenant Governor all along been the very Gentleman who has prevented it, and wiped out every spirited, if not every sensible

John Adams diary 10, includes legal notes, 24 January - 21 February 1765, August 1765 1961

The Senate are only a Check to prevent Impositions of the

John Adams diary 46, various loose folded sheets, 6 August 1787 - 10 September 1796 (with gaps), 2 July - 21 August 1804 1961

If the Impositions and Taxes run high, the Country Farmer can't help that; you know that the War costs mony, and it must be given, or else we should lose all.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

An occasional letter, however, certainly did pass between them, for, as Smith himself mentions in a letter which will appear in a subsequent chapter, it was “by the particular favour of M. Turgot” that he received the copy of the M.moires concernant les Impositions, which he quotes so often in the Wealth of Nations.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895