Virtual representation
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The concept of virtual representation proposed that the members of the UK Parliament, including the Lords and the Crown-in-Parliament, reserved the right to speak for the interests of all British subj
Virtual Representative (standing, clad in brown) gives the Government (with blunderbuss) permission to rob a colonist. Catholic Quebec enjoys peace, Protestant Boston burns, and blinded Britannia approaches a pit. 1775 cartoon
The governments of the Thirteen Colonies of British America developed in the 17th and 18th centuries under the influence of the British constitution. The British monarch issued colonial charters that
George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland during the American Revolution, was the last monarch to reign over the Thirteen Colonies
The House of Commons of Great Britain during the reign of George II
Governor's Palace at New Bern, North Carolina
Council Chamber of the Royal Governor, Old Statehouse, in Boston