The Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Commission to Compile Information and Data for the Use of the Constitutional Convention; Room 426, State House, Boston (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Munro, William B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331670926 ISBN 13: 9781331670926

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Commission to Compile Information and Data for the Use of the Constitutional Convention; Room 426, State House, Boston

The fundamental law of Massachusetts is rooted well back in the past. The Constitution of 1780 is still in force in its essen tial principles; and these principles are derived in part from the Colony charter of 1629 and the Province charter of 1691.

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Excerpt from The Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Commission to Compile Information and Data for the Use of the Constitutional Convention; Room 426, State House, Boston

The fundamental law of Massachusetts is rooted well back in the past. The Constitution of 1780 is still in force in its essential principles; and these principles are derived in part from the Colony charter of 1629 and the Province charter of 1691.

I.

The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay (Colony Chapter), 1629-1686.

Many of the political institutions of the Massachusetts Colony were the outgrowth of the charter of a business corporation. In granting articles of incorporation to trading companies operating in sections of the Empire in which no government owing allegiance to England had been established, it was the policy of the Crown to empower such companies not only to trade but also to make settlements and exercise political authority in those districts. These trading charters are the parents of the American State constitutions. Such a company was organized in London by a number of small investors in 1628. It obtained "all that part of New England in America" lying between parallels three miles north of the Merrimac and three miles south of the Charles. The next year it secured a royal charter from Charles I, dated March 4, 1629, constituting it the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England.

This charter followed the lines of other charters to joint-stock corporations. The stockholders were called freemen of the corporation. They were to elect their officials by ballot on the "last Wednesday in Easter tearme yearely," - the origin of our annual elections at fixed dates.

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.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331670926
• ISBN 13: 9781331670926
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316