Synopsis
What documents enforced English control over its colonies? Who used pamphlets to voice protest and stir up political resistance? How did colonial settlers envision their future governing structures? This extensive work provides and in-depth look at 260 major documents that shaped the structure, form, and function of the political system in colonial and revultionary America. Documents include royal charters establishing colonial claims, sermons that question or bolster the established order, pamphlets, state constitutions, debates over the make-up of the Continental Congress and Articles of Confederation, and the like. Introductory commentary contextualizes the documents and highlights the reader's understanding of these events as the blueprint for how the colonies became a nation. The work is fully indexed. Some documents included in the set Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis, 1624 Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, March 25, 1584 Instructions for the Governing of Virginia, November 20, 1606 Organization of the Government of Massachusetts Bay, April 30, 1629 Method of Voting for Provincial Officers of Maryland, May 12, 1670 Fundamental Agreement of New Haven, June 4, 1639 Charter of New York, March 12, 1663/1664 Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England, August 29, 1643 Petition of Connecticut to James II, August 24, 1686 Queen's Instructions to Governor Dudley, April 6, 1702 Royal Seizure of Maryland Government, July 25, 1689 Act to Prevent Bribery and Corruption in Election of Members of General Assembly, May 1756 Call to the People of Rhode Island to Assume Their Former Government, April 23, 1689 Remonstrance of East Jersey, 1700 Narrative Proceedings of the People of South Carolina, May 1719 Constitution of Delaware, 1776 Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774 Albany Plan of Union, 1754 Address to People of Granville County, North Carolina, June 6, 1765 Colonies Send Delegates to the Continental Congress, June-September 1774 Congress Advises South Carolina, November 4, 1775 Congress Calls on Colonies to Form Governments, November 4, 1775 Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 Virginia Bill of Rights, June 12, 1776 Connecticut Legislature Debates Western Lands, October 1783 Drafts of the Articles of Confederation and Discussion in the Continental Congress Congress Urges States to Ratify Articles, November 17, 1777 Congress Attempts to Discipline David Howell, December 1782 Northwest Ordinances of 1784 and 1787 Alexander Hamilton, "The Continentalist," August 1781-July 1782 Proposed Amendments to the Articles of Confederation, August 7, 1786 Benjamin Rush, On the Defects of the Confederation, May 1787
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