Daniel Dulany: "Considerations" (1765)

... The notion of a virtual representation of the colonies must fail, which, in Truth, is a mere cob-web, spread to catch the unwary, and tangle the weak...

There is not that intimate and inseparable relation between the colonies and Great Britain and the inhabitants of the colonies, which may inevitably involve both in the same taxation; on the contrary, not a single actual elector in England, might be immediately affected by taxation in America, imposed by a statute which would have a general effect on the properties and inhabitants of the colonies...

It appears to me that there is a clear and necessary distinction between an act imposing a tax for the simple purpose of revenue, and those acts which have been made for the regulation of trade, and have produced some revenue in consequence of their effect and operation as regulations of trade.

The subordination of the colonies, and the authority of Parliament to preserve it, have been fully acknowledged. Not only the welfare, but perhaps the existence of the mother country, as an independent kingdom, may depend on her trade and navigation, and these so far upon her intercourse with her colonies, that if this should be neglected, there would soon be an end to that commerce whence her greatest wealth is derived. From these considerations, the right of British Parliament to regulate the trade of the colonies may be justly deduced... It is a common, and frequently the most popular method to regulate trade by duties on imports and exports... The authority of the mother country to regulate the trade of the colonies being unquestionable, what regulations are the most proper, are to be of course to the determination of Parliament...