An American history . take part in the governmentof the empire, they made up for that deprivation by taking agreat interest in local affairs. In every colony there was onehouse of the legislature to which Americans could be , except in Connecticut, and Rhode Island,^ thispopular house was opposed by a governor sent out from In 1776 these two still elected their Kovernors. Maryland, Pennsylvania,and Delaware were proprietary colonies. The rest were royal had been transformed into a province in 1752. MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 145 England. Between the tw
An American history . take part in the governmentof the empire, they made up for that deprivation by taking agreat interest in local affairs. In every colony there was onehouse of the legislature to which Americans could be , except in Connecticut, and Rhode Island,^ thispopular house was opposed by a governor sent out from In 1776 these two still elected their Kovernors. Maryland, Pennsylvania,and Delaware were proprietary colonies. The rest were royal had been transformed into a province in 1752. MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 145 England. Between the two stood the council, appointedeither by the governor or the king, which played the partalmost of what we know to-day as an upper chamber. Italso served as the highest court of the colony. Roughlyspeaking, these two — the Assembly and the Council — wererelated to each other about as were the House of Commonsand the House of Lords in England. The lower house,as the popular body was called, paid the governors salary,. PHILADELPHIA ABOUT 1740From an old print. often with such bad grace that the governors besought thecrown to find some way to pay their salaries without askingleave of the Assemblies. 218. Other Political Activities. The political restlessnessof the Americans found other means of expression. Every-where the method of conducting local matters gave scope forthe political instinct. The South generally had the Enghshcounty system: in each county a board of quarter ses-sions, also known as the County Court, was appointed bythe governor, and this board looked after the taxation of thecounty and the administration of justice. Pennsylvaniahad the same system except that the county officials werechosen by the people of the county. Towns, which weresmaller than counties, were the political units of New England. 146 AMERICAN HISTORY In a New England town all the voters met periodically inthe town meeting, which formed a complete democracy almostlike the miniature democracies
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