On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 18:55 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in small part: > > >First, the colonials in > >fact did try to use the government system in place. It did not obtain > >the sought goals. > > >Second, the Colonial Empire was not a republic, nor a democracy. So they > >didn't *have* representation -it was a Monarchy. > > It was a monarchy, but they did have representation. The colonies had no > representation in the House of Lords AFAIK. Founded on land grants > emanating directly from the monarch, the colonies were not under lordship. > > However, there was at least one representative for the colonies in the > House of Commons. (Probably several reps, I'm not sure.) The > representative was picked by the company that had founded the colony. It > was considered impracticable to have the colonists elect representatives. > > Remember that these colonies were founded by various means. In many cases > they were commercial enterprises, and therefore were subject to corporate > governance. At least one of the companies survives to the present day -- > Bay, in Canada, being the remnant of the Hudson's Bay Company. However, > ISTR Bay closing their last store recently, or some news of that nature.
I sit partially corrected. ;) _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
