A History Of The United States From The Discovery Of The American Continent 1st Ed

Author : George Bancroft
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243434343
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book History of the United States, From the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 1 written by George Bancroft and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the United States, From the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 1: Part II The political condition of the colonists was not deemed by King Charles a subject worthy of his consideration. Full legislative and executive authority was conferred, not on the emigrants, but on the company, of which the emi grants could not be active members, so long as the charter of the corporation remained in England. The associates in London were to establish ordinances, to settle forms of government, to name all necessary officers, to prescribe their duties, and to establish a criminal code. Massa chusetts was not erected into a province, to be governed by laws of its own enactment; it was reserved for the corporation to decide what degree of civil rights its colo nists should enjoy. The charter on which the freemen Of Massachusetts succeeded in erecting a system Of inde pendent representative liberty, did not secure to them a single privilege Of self-government but left them, as the Virginians had been left, without one valuable franchise, at the mercy of a corporation within the realm. This was 'so evident, that some of those who had already emigrated clamoured that they were become slaves.(3) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.