Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . ts: and it was to have a negativeupon British statutes relating to the Colonies. The idea was aBritish and .\merican legislature for regulating the affairs ofAmerica. The President-General was to execute the decrees ofthe Grand Council. He also had the power of vetoing arrangement for arbitration lietween America and theMother Country, which has no little resemblance to the Consti-tution of the United States adopted thirteen years later, differingfrom it in leaving the choice of the President and the se
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . ts: and it was to have a negativeupon British statutes relating to the Colonies. The idea was aBritish and .\merican legislature for regulating the affairs ofAmerica. The President-General was to execute the decrees ofthe Grand Council. He also had the power of vetoing arrangement for arbitration lietween America and theMother Country, which has no little resemblance to the Consti-tution of the United States adopted thirteen years later, differingfrom it in leaving the choice of the President and the secondbranch of the legislature to the King and British nation, whom 15 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal Galloway looked upon as the Sdurce df pnwer, instead ni tn thepeople of the United States, whom the framers of the Constitutionrecognized as sovereign, was the best possible suggestion fromthose who with sincerity professed the desire to remain under theKings government. 1 am as much a friend to liberty as exists,said Galloway in presenting it. and no man shall go further in. Deshlers Fort or Block house, built 1760 Lehigh county. From a sketch made especiallyfor this work point of fortune or in point of blood than the man who nowaddresses you. The plan was favored by John Jay and JamesDuane of New York and by Edward Rutledge of South was rejected, says Charles Francis Adams in notes to JohnAdamss Writings, by the close vote of six colonies against five;says Bancroft, no colony but perhaps New York favored this defeat, says Bancroft, Galloway lost his mischievousimportance. On October 8th. Congress passed a resolutionapproving of the opposition made b}- the people of Massachusetts t6 Independence te carried intoexecution by force, all America ought to support them in oppo-sition. Galloway thought this resolution treasonable. Duaneand he asked to be allowed to enter their protest, but Congressrefused, and they privately
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