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    They also protested that r < They apprehended the navigation acts to he an invasion of the rights , liberties , and properties of the subjects of his majesty in the

    colony > they not being represented in Parliament ; " • they added , however , that " they had made provision by a law of the colony , that they should be strictly attended to from time to time , although it greatly discouraged trade , and was a great damage to his majesty ' s plantation . "—Vol . I . p . 349 .

    Such demonstrations might well have served as warnings to the government of George III . James II . succeeded in utterly overturning their constitution , and imposing a royal governor upon them ; but at the first rumour of the expected Revolution in England , an insurrection at Boston restored the democratic institutions ,

    which were found entire at the accession of William and Mary . But King William disappointed the expectations of the New England states . He refused to give up some of the privileges which his predecessors had seized , particularly the right of naming the governors , and to Massachusetts he never returned its charter . Their constitution continued under the form in

    which he settled it until the Declaration of Independence . We have seen the intolerant spirit of the New England states . In Rhode Island alone we find an honourable exception . All professors of Christianity , except Catholics , were there admitted to the rights of citizenship , in Virginia the Church of England was established by law : attendance on its worship

    enjoined under heavy penalties , and the worship of dissenters forbidden under various degrees of punishment . These laws were not repealed at the Revolution of 1688 , but they gradually grew into disuse , and liberty of conscience was in fact enjoyed . In Maryland , originally a Catholic state , which tolerated Protestantism , all sects were ultimately tolerated ,

    except Catholics . r lhe Church of England was established in Carolina , and dissenters simply tolerated . In New York , episcopacy made hard struggles to attain a supremacy , but never succeeded . The institutions of Pennsylvania as to religious opinion were as superior to the other states as they were on

    some other points—such as the penal code , and the treatment of criminals . They enacted that every man " should be exempted from molestation on account of his more particular opinions and practices , as well as from obligation to frequent or support any religious assembly , ministry , or worship whatever . —Vol . II . p . 335 .

    We have attempted nothing more than to develope some of the leading points in the constitutional history of British America . Our readers will perceive that this is but one portion of the large amount of information to be derived from Mr .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/46/