“Their jurisprudence was marked with wisdom and dignity, and their simplicity and piety were displayed equally in the regulation of their police, the nature of their contracts and the punctuality of observance. The old Plymouth colony remained for some time a distinct government. They chose their own magistrates, independent of all foreign control; but a few years involved them with the Massachusetts [colony], of which, Boston, more recently settled than Plymouth, was the capital. From the local situation of a country, separated by an ocean of a thousand leagues from the parent state, and surrounded by a world of savages, an immediate compact with the King of Great Britain was thought necessary. Thus, a charter was early granted, stipulating on the part of the crown, that the Massachusetts [colony] should have a legislative body within itself, composed of three branches, and subject to no control, except his majesty’s negative, within a limited term, to any laws formed by their assembly that might be thought to militate with the general interest of the realm of England. The governor was appointed by the crown, the representative body, annually chosen by the people, and the council elected by the representatives from the people at large.” Mercy Otis Warren, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, 1805 Refer to the excerpt provided. This passage from Mercy Otis Warren’s history of the American Revolution alludes to which factor leading to colonists’ discontent after the French and Indian War? a) The relative independence the British granted the North American colonies before the 1760s b) The unjust appointment of governors by the king of Great Britain c) The right of the British to tax colonists d) The population pressures caused by mass migration to cities
“Their jurisprudence was marked with wisdom and dignity, and their simplicity and piety were displayed equally in the regulation of their police, the nature of their contracts and the punctuality of observance. The old Plymouth colony remained for some time a distinct government. They chose their own magistrates, independent of all foreign control; but a few years involved them with the Massachusetts [colony], of which, Boston, more recently settled than Plymouth, was the capital. From the local situation of a country, separated by an ocean of a thousand leagues from the parent state, and surrounded by a world of savages, an immediate compact with the King of Great Britain was thought necessary. Thus, a charter was early granted, stipulating on the part of the crown, that the Massachusetts [colony] should have a legislative body within itself, composed of three branches, and subject to no control, except his majesty’s negative, within a limited term, to any laws formed by their assembly that might be thought to militate with the general interest of the realm of England. The governor was appointed by the crown, the representative body, annually chosen by the people, and the council elected by the representatives from the people at large.”
Mercy Otis Warren, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, 1805
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