Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Backdrop to power. Process and pattern. The configuration of politics
  • Part II. Control over finance. Money bills. Accounts. Expenditures. Paper money
  • Part III. Control over the civil list. Salaries. Fees
  • Part IV. Control over the legislative process. Membership. Internal proceedings
  • Part V. Control over executive affairs. Revenue officers. Public works and services. Colonial agents. Public printers. Military affairs. Indian affairs. Courts and judges. Church offices
  • Part VI. The fruits of power, 1763-1776. A new status and a new challenge. Tightening the reins : general issues. Tightening the reins : local issues. The ultimate issue. Appendix I. Chief executives of the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776. Appendix II. Speakers of the Lower Houses in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776. Appendix III. The leaders of the Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1688-1776.