COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Who had the power to raise taxes
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Voting age for men
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The process of how laws are created
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The variety of powers held in the representative bodies
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Detailed explanation-1: -The British government’s position was that Parliament’s authority was unlimited, while the American position was that colonial legislatures were coequal with Parliament and outside of its jurisdiction.
Detailed explanation-2: -Structure of Colonial Government. England and the colonies had executives (England had a king; each colony had a governor) and two-house legislatures (England had a Parliament with a House of Commons and a House of Lords; each colony had an assembly with a House of Representatives and an upper house, or council).
Detailed explanation-3: -Parliament and American colonist differed in belief in representation due to belief that Parliament represented political interest of everyone who lived under the British empire. From this, Britain believed they virtually represented the American colonist. The American colonist on the other hand seen it differently.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Prime Minister and the Cabinet The Prime Minister being the de facto leader of the UK, exercises executive functions that are nominally vested in the sovereign (by way of the Royal Prerogatives). Historically, the British monarch was the sole source of executive powers in the government.