Excerpts from the Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England …Wee do hereby give and grant unto you full power and authority, by and with the advise and consent of our said Councill … to make constitute and ordain lawes statutes and ordinances … … …Wee do hereby give and grant unto you full power and authority, by and with the advise and consent of our said Councill … to make constitute and ordain lawes statutes and ordinances … … … to impose assess and raise and levy rates and taxes as you shall find necessary for the support of the government … … to impose assess and raise and levy rates and taxes as you shall find necessary for the support of the government … …to be a constant and setled Court of Record for ye administration of justice …to be a constant and setled Court of Record for ye administration of justice …levy arme muster command … also to execute martiall law in time of invasion insurrection or war… …levy arme muster command … also to execute martiall law in time of invasion insurrection or war… What do you think the colonial reaction to this arrangement was.
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