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What was the key to colonial assemblies' power?
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What was the key to colonial assemblies' power?
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour
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brought to you by assembly power Every principal secret weapon
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Well the key to the colonial assemblies Power was what
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And hear the potential answers Was the colonies form their
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new state Government's colonial governors came into continued conflict with
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colonial assembly's over how to best get things done Good
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thing that doesn't happen anymore right Well let's take a
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look at a was the key to the colonial assemblies
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power the limited authority granted to colonial governors Actually the
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colonial governors were granted plenty of authority The assembly's just
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made a habit of undermining it that overrules eh How
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about b Did colonial assemblies derive their power from written
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constitutions within each of the colonies Well actually many colonies
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didn't form written constitutions until after they declared independence from
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britain So we're a little early for that particular tea
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party Could colonial assemblies have obtained their power because they
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were c backed by voting laws that allowed all white
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men to vote while you could only vote if you
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owned property And while many white men did on land
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it was by no means one hundred percent of that
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knocks out See to what about eat the colonial assembly
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control over the colonial councils Not so much The colonial
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council's assisted and were usually appointed by the colonial governors
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for the assembly's didn't hold any sway in this particular
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area which means the key to the colonial assemblies Power
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was d their control over taxes and spending Colonial assemblies
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had the power to approve taxes and decide where money
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was spent which gave them quite a bit of leeway
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in how the colonies function So dee is the correct
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answer Because colonial assemblies held the power of the purse
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governors had few options Once assemblies decided teo tighten the 00:01:48.072 --> [endTime] strings
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