Thus the Commonwealth period in Virginia came to an end. No longer was the Assembly to be the supreme power, selecting the Governor and Council, and controlling local government. The old struggle for self-government had to be resumed; the representatives of the people again had to steel themselves against the encroachments of arbitrary Kings and arbitrary Governors. More than a century was to elapse before the rights surrendered when Charles II was proclaimed were regained. But the training in self-government received during the eight years that the people were their own masters stood them in good stead in the conflicts ahead. Having tasted the sweets of freedom, they were ready to resist when Governors vetoed their bills, or corrupted the Burgesses, or swayed the courts, or bullied the Council. The Commonwealth period foreshadowed Bacon's Rebellion and the American Revolution; the constitutional Assembly of 1652 foreshadowed Bacon's Assembly of June, 1676, and the Virginia Convention of 1776. FOOTNOTES: [1] _Virginia Magazine_ 1: 77. [2] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 237. [3] CO1-20. [4] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 273. [5] _Ibid._, 272. [6] _Ibid._, 237. [7] _Ibid._, 244. [8] _Ibid._, 267. [9] Robert Beverley, _History and present state of Virginia_, ed. L. B. Wright, 60. [10] _Virginia Magazine_ 8: 73. [11] CO1-30, p. 71. [12] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 323. [13] _Ibid._, 296. [14] Report of Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part 1: 158. [15] _Lower Norfolk County Antiquary_ 1: 83, 84. [16] E. D. Neill, _Virginia Carolorum_, 166. [17] _Ibid._, 167. [18] _Ibid._, 172. [19] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 277. [20] E. D. Neill, _Virginia Carolorum_, 200. [21] _Ibid._, 206. [22] _Lower Norfolk County Antiquary_ 2: 14, 61. [23] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 361. [24] _Virginia Magazine_ 1: 77. [25] Scobell, _Collection of acts_ 2: 132. [26] _Virginia Magazine_ 1: 77. [27] _Calendar of state papers, Colonial_ 1: 332. [28] CO1-11. [29] _Virginia Magazine_ 11: 33. [30] _Virginia Magazine_ 11: 24. [31] _Ibid._, 33. [32] _Ibid._, 23. [33] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 363-365. [34] _Journals of the House of Burgesses_, 1619-1659, xx. [35] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 371, 372. [36] _William and Mary Quarterly_ 1: 154. [37] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 418. [38] _Virginia Magazine_ 3: 310, 311; W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 382. [39] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 535, 536. [40] G. L. Beer, _Origins of the British colonial system_, 396. [41] N. C. Hale, _Virginia venturer_, 282-285. [42] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 412. [43] _Ibid._, 475. [44] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 408. [45] _Ibid._, 499. [46] _Ibid._, 499, 505. [47] _Ibid._, 509, 510. [48] _Ibid._, 537. [49] _Tyler's Magazine_ 1: 244, 245. [50] W. W. Hening, _Statutes at large_ 1: 530.