Download or read book The Effect of the Revolution of 1688 in the American Colonies (Classic Reprint) written by Mary Severance Burke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Effect of the Revolution of 1688 in the American Colonies The beginning of English colonization in the New World was a very new and strange problem to the Mother State a puzzle which proved difficult to solve. How to maintain the authority of the crown in a land thousands of miles from the seat of government was difficulty enough in itself. The various trial plans led to a gradual development which gave to the individual grantee all power to manage his own set tlement in his own way, so long as he obeyed and followed, as far as possible, the English laws. This was not altogether wise as tne real truth of the matter the colonization by Englishmen, as opposed to settlement by conquest of barba rians became evident. The theory that legislative author ity may remain in the crown, while executive functions, at the same time, are delegated to a local governor might have developed well managed colonies as powerful instruments of despotism in the constitutional struggle of the seventeenth. 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.