Author: Oliver Morton Dickerson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781528387170

Excerpt from American Colonial Government, 1696-1765: A Study of the British Board of Trade in Its Relation to the American Colonies, Political, Industrial, Administrative Another phase of the relations of the colonies to the home government which has never received adequate consideration, and which is dealt with at some length in the present volume, is the treatment of colonial leg islation. Who directed the royal veto? What laws were vetoed and for what reasons? Were such inter ferences with colonial legislation the result of the arbi trary action of an irresponsible monarch, or that of a conservative judicial body? What was the effect of such vetoes upon colonial legislation? Has our own judicial practice inherited anything from colonial pre cedents in such matters? These are some of the ques tions which have been considered, and upon which, it is believed, light has been thrown. As there is no treatise which discusses in adequate detail the changes in the English constitution during the eighteenth century, it has been necessary to inves tigate rather carefully the operation of the Privy Council and the work and development of its com mittees. This has led to conclusions somewhat novel, and perhaps at variance with commonly accepted ideas; but it is believed that these conclusions will stand criticism and be fully sustained by more com plete investigation. The subject is one which prop erly belongs within the field of English constitutional history; but as an understanding of the matter is acces sary to an intelligent account of the organs of colonial administration, there was.no alternative but to include a rather detailed description of the committee system and its operation. 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.