The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... royal colony and thus stood at the apex of the entire official system in America . He expressed his will and pleasure in a variety of forms - commissions , instructions , and royal warrants , the last usually countersigned by a ...
... royal colony and thus stood at the apex of the entire official system in America . He expressed his will and pleasure in a variety of forms - commissions , instructions , and royal warrants , the last usually countersigned by a ...
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... royal prerogative . In the first two particulars they were successful in their efforts ; but in the third they made little headway , for the popular parties in the colonial Assemblies fought the prerogative in whatever form it appeared ...
... royal prerogative . In the first two particulars they were successful in their efforts ; but in the third they made little headway , for the popular parties in the colonial Assemblies fought the prerogative in whatever form it appeared ...
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... royal dispensing power were no longer of effect.1 This interpretation of the Bill was not accepted by the Royal African Company , but the contemporary attacks on the East India Company showed how far from secure those who held royal ...
... royal dispensing power were no longer of effect.1 This interpretation of the Bill was not accepted by the Royal African Company , but the contemporary attacks on the East India Company showed how far from secure those who held royal ...
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