In early North America, settlements called colonies began as chartered proprietorships. What this meant was that each English North American possession which had its beginnings by English law originated as a proprietary colony. Later, all but five of those colonies became Royal, or crown colonies. The legislature in a royal colony consisted of a crown appointed and crown controlled seven to twelve member council and lower house. These members were elected by popular vote. These …showed first 75 words of 860 total…

…showed last 75 words of 860 total…believe the way in which they wanted. To some, this could be seen as a foreshadowing of the soon to come Revolutionary War in which the colonies formed as a whole to create their own establishment which was to become the United States. To the dismay of the Private colonies, the crown still possessed the same powers over the legislation passed by them as it did in respect to both the Royal and Proprietary colonies.