An Essay On the Government of Dependencies

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But there were many reasons why the Anglo- * See Smith's Wealth of Nations, b. V. C. 3. (vol. Iii. P. 45965. ) Adolphus, History of George IV. Vol. I. P. 337.
216 ADVANTAGES OF A DOMINANT COUNTRY [CH.
Americans were naturally not inclined to take this view of the demand made upon them by the English government. In the first place, a dependency is (as we have already shown*) a separate community ; and the members of it are accustomed to look upon the subordinate government as that which is pecu-
... liarly their own. The subordinate government keeps a separate account of its revenue and expendi- ture^ and the people of the dependency are there- fore likely to acquire a habit of thinking that no tax ought to be paid by them except for defraying an expense of the subordinate government. Moreover, the natives of a dependency are accustomed to regard the supreme government as something in which they have scarcely any concern, which lies beyond their sphere, and to the prizes and emoluments of which the members of their little community can- not aspire.

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