WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Governments in the colonies were influenced and sometimes controlled by this country, you’ve got to know that, England. This document, written in 1215, establish rights and the idea that government should be limited, government power that is, the Magna Carta.

Detailed explanation-2: -The biggest influence came from their British heritage. (Remember the colonists WERE British until the American Revolution!) Events in British history and things that were happening during their own time affected the way the Founders thought government should work.

Detailed explanation-3: -The colonies were governed by elected magistrates. Formally subject to royal authority, New England settlements were essentially self-governing, and the colonists, not London officials or investors, determined the structure of political institutions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Colonial Governments Charters of royal colonies provided for direct rule by the king. A colonial legislature was elected by property holding males. But governors were appointed by the king and had almost complete authority-in theory.

Detailed explanation-5: -Each colony had its own government, but the British king controlled these governments. By the 1770s, many colonists were angry because they did not have self-government. This meant that they could not govern themselves and make their own laws. They had to pay high taxes to the king.