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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: various charters granted by the King of England, and the first
acts of the local governments.
See also the analysis of all these charters given by Mr.
Story, Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the
Introduction to his "Commentary on the Constitution of the United
States." It results from these documents that the principles of
representative government and the external forms of political
liberty were introduced into all the colonies at their origin.
These principles were more fully acted upon in the North than in
the South, but they existed everywhere.]
In 1628 *m a charter of this kind was granted by Charles I
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