colonial charter

collocation in English

meaningsofcolonialandcharter

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colonial
adjective
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/kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/us
/kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/
relating to a colony ...
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charter
noun
uk
/ˈtʃɑː.tər/us
/ˈtʃɑːr.t̬ɚ/
a formal statement of the rights of a country's people, or of an organization or a particular social group, that is agreed by or demanded from a ruler ...
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(Definition ofcolonialandcharterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Before the 1840s, there were several attempts to replace thecolonialcharterwith a new state constitution that provided broader voting rights, but all failed.
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Thecolonialcharterwas abolished with the adoption of the first state constitution in 1818.
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He further raised tensions by implicitly suggesting that the assembly's failure to act on the salary might jeopardize thecolonialcharter.
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This document states that colonial rights can not be altered too much, as thecolonialchartermust be respected.
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He served as the speaker of that colony's assembly in 1684, the year in which thecolonialcharterwas revoked.
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Thecolonialcharterwas one designed for the management of a corporation, and the needs of the colonial government did not always fit well into this model.
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That year, thecolonialcharterwas revoked.
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It was also the only state which had not adopted a written constitution, and the oldcolonialcharter, under which the state was ruled, was outdated.
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Further, territory was the basis (often paired with wealth, religion, or literacy) of representation in all colonial charters and their subsequent state constitutions at the founding.
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Otis realized that a guarantee of rights through the colonial charters would always remain unstable.
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Connecticut did not create a state constitution for itself until several decades after it became a state; until 1818, the state operated under the provisions of itscolonialcharter.
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They called themselves republics, and set up their own courts directly from the people without colonial charters.
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These claims arose from existing colonial charters.
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These powers were presumed, as the royal colonial charters did not explicitly grant them, and in many instances was an expression of the public will through provincial legislation.
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