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State Constitutions In Colonial America
Before 1763, Britain was not deeply involved in the daily business of colonial governments. One reason for this was that many changes were taking place in English politics and society. In the beginning many of the colonies were considered the personal property of the king.(Hakim,56) However, due to the limits on royal power the task of governing the colonies fell to Parliament. Parl ....
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Each state has a constitution that sets forth the principles and framework of its government. Like the United states Constitution, each state constitution has a bill of rights.(World book, 347) A few states drew up constitutions before the United States Constitution was adopted, but only the one drawn up by Massachusetts is still in use today. (World book, 348)
The early state constitutions were somewhat vague. They only covered the major points t ....
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