By the Charter of Privileges, which now became the fundamental law as long as the proprietary government lasted, the legislative power was vested in the governor and assembly to be annually chosen, to sit upon its own adjournments, and to propose bills subject only to the assent of the governor. Sheriffs and coroners were appointed by the people; questions of property could not be brought before the governor and council; and the justiciary was left to the legislature, which gave occasion to after disputes. Entire religious liberty was established. “And now,” says Bancroft, “having divested himself and his successors of any power to injure, Penn had founded a democracy. By the necessities of the case, he remained the feudal sovereign; for only as such could he grant or have maintained the charter of colonial liberties. But time and the people would remove the inconsistency. Having thus given freedom and popular power to his provinces, no strifes remaining but strifes about property, happily for himself, he departed from the young country of his affections.” Penn left James Logan, for many years the colonial secretary and member of the council, the agent of his private property, who was able, by his mild but firm character, to maintain Penn’s rights against the encroaching, mean spirit of the colonists, whose selfish bargaining contrasted so painfully with the broad liberality of the proprietary. In England, the virtue and sacrifices of William Penn were not without acknowledgment; he retained his province. His poverty might have induced him to part with it to the crown; but insisting on the liberties which he had granted being unannulled, the crown hardly set any value upon it; and when, distressed and worn out with the angry and unworthy disputes of the province with him on questions of property, he threatened to resign his powers to government, the province, like a spoiled child threatened with the rod, yielded at once and promised no further offending. The early Pennsylvanians were in fact spoiled by the kindness and concessions of Penn; they were incapable of comprehending the breadth of his practical Christianity; they almost despised him for it, and treated him with no consideration.