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The British government's position was that Parliament's authority was unlimited, while the American position was that colonial legislatures were coequal with Parliament and outside of its jurisdiction.
An Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 25 March 1807, with the title of "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade". The original act is in the Parliamentary Archives.
An example of the executive branch imposing a check on the legislative power to make laws could include the executive branch extending its power to veto laws proposed by Congress.
Since there are no infinitives, gerunds, or participles in this sentence, I'm assuming that the underlined phrase is <em>with Haiti's independence from France.
</em>This means that the phrase you are looking for is prepositional, since it begins with a preposition <em>with </em>(or <em>from, </em>if the underlined phrase is <em>from France).</em><em>
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