BLACKSTONE VERSUS FRANKLIN COLONISTS HAVING THEIR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO

'An Inquiry: The first settlers in the colonies knew that they were to continue the subjects of the same government....'

Franklin's reply:  'They well knew the contrary.  They would never have gone if that had been the case.  They fled from your government, which oppressed them....They carried not your laws....'

'It (Franklin's) was a position far removed from colonists' former (Blackstonian) claims against metropolitan taxation on the grounds that they had carried with them the rights, and laws, of Englishmen.' Clark

With respect to the Plymouth Colony, Franklin had a point, re first settlers.

Clark's larger point, however, is that the early Plymouth Colony's government was not valid.