A Source Book in American History to 1787

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95. The demand of Massachusetts for more weight in the union,
  with the answer of the Congress of the Confederation;
  from the _Plymouth Colony Records_                                 285

  96. Nullification by Massachusetts, with the protest of the
  Congress of the Confederation; _ib._                               287


  C. COLONIAL AMERICA


  XVIII. Liberal Charters

  97. The Connecticut charter of 1662; from the _Connecticut Colonial
  Records_                                                           290

  98. The Rhode Island charter of 1663 (parts referring especially
  to religious liberty); from the _Rhode Island Colonial
  Records_                                                           293


  XIX. An English Colonial System

  99. Royal instructions for the "Councill appointed for Forraigne
  Plantations" (1660); from O'Callaghan's _Documents relative
  to the Colonial History of New York_                               298

  100. The English commercial policy:

  _a._ The "first" Navigation Act (1660), regarding shipping
  and "enumerated" colonial exports, with
  note from the Act of 1662 explaining that "English"
  ships include colonial; from _Statutes of the
  Realm_                                                             300

  _b._ The Navigation Act of 1663 (regarding colonial imports);
  _ib._                                                              301

  _c._ The Sugar Act of 1733; _ib._                                  303

  101. The Duke of York's charter for New York (1664); from
  O'Callaghan's _Documents relative to Colonial History of
  New York_                                                          305

  102. Penn's grant of Pennsylvania (1680); from the _Charters and
  Laws of Pennsylvania_                                              307

  103. Penn's grants to the Pennsylvanians:

  _a._ "Laws agreed upon in England" (1683); from
  Hazard's _Annals of Pennsylvania_                                  311

  _b._ The "Charter of Privileges" of 1701; from _Votes
  and Proceedings of the House of Representatives
  of Pennsylvania_                                                   314

  104. Berkeley's Report on Virginia in 1671; from Hening's
  _Statutes_                                                         319

  105. The franchise in Virginia restricted (the Act of 1670); _ib._ 324

  106. "Bacon's Laws" (the legislation of the revolutionary Assembly
  of 1676); _ib._                                                    325

  107. The proclamation of July, 1676, by Nathaniel Bacon, "Generall
  by Consent of the People"; from the _Massachusetts
  Historical Society Collections_                                    328

  108. Testimony by various county courts showing that democratic
  political discontent was a chief cause of Bacon's Rebellion;
  from the _Virginia Magazine of History_                            329

  109. The abolition of Bacon's reforms:
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