111-125

Updated: May 3, 2025

There is a fairly good account of the revision and transformation of the colonial governments in Bancroft's History of the United States, final edition, N.Y., 1886, vol. v. pp. 111-125. The series of "American Commonwealths," edited by H.E. Scudder, and published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., will be found helpful.

John Fiske - Civil Government in the United States Considered with: Some Reference to Its Origins