The Governmental History of the United States of America: From the Earliest Settlement to the Adoption of the Present Federal Constitution |
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... mother country . Year after year she avowed by her acts the supremacy of the crown , recognized the authority of the estab- lished church , and submitted to the jurisdiction of parlia- PART I. VIRGINIA , Virginia a ment , shadowing ...
... mother country . Year after year she avowed by her acts the supremacy of the crown , recognized the authority of the estab- lished church , and submitted to the jurisdiction of parlia- PART I. VIRGINIA , Virginia a ment , shadowing ...
Page 123
... mother country when the more active development of the political elements of freedom embraced in the protestantism of the reformation , interested and agita - Progress ted all classes and conditions of men . The more zeal- of Protest ...
... mother country when the more active development of the political elements of freedom embraced in the protestantism of the reformation , interested and agita - Progress ted all classes and conditions of men . The more zeal- of Protest ...
Page 134
... mother country is well illustrated by an act passed by the assembly while the civil war was at its heighth , and which is otherwise important . It recites : Provision ACT LXXIII . " Whereas , through the unkind differ- Governor ence now ...
... mother country is well illustrated by an act passed by the assembly while the civil war was at its heighth , and which is otherwise important . It recites : Provision ACT LXXIII . " Whereas , through the unkind differ- Governor ence now ...
Page 136
... mother country , so far as it concerned the colonies in America , was , to raise a question as to the powers of the governor and council , and of all other officers appointed by them under their com- See Part II . missions from the ...
... mother country , so far as it concerned the colonies in America , was , to raise a question as to the powers of the governor and council , and of all other officers appointed by them under their com- See Part II . missions from the ...
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... mother country . The house of burgesses gradually concentrated in themselves all legislative , judicial , and executive functions , without sumed by any due separation of , or constitutional limit to their the Bur- powers . They ...
... mother country . The house of burgesses gradually concentrated in themselves all legislative , judicial , and executive functions , without sumed by any due separation of , or constitutional limit to their the Bur- powers . They ...
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