The inhabitants of these States being claimed by them as subjects, they may infer, from the nature of the negotiation now pretended to be set on foot, that the said inhabitants would of right be afterwards bound by such laws as they should make.
Paine discusses the implications of colonial subjects being bound by laws made by a foreign power.
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