The revolutionary spirit had been handed down from the seventeenth-century sects, through the colonial charters.

Their colonial charters extended from sea to sea.

Powers of government and privileges analogous to those comprised in other colonial charters, were also contained in this.

He asserted that the Acts of Trade were "irreconcilable with the colonial charters, and hence were void."

The Founders felt that ultimately their boundaries would extend to the western sea, as several of the original colonial charters had provided.

I have devoted a brief chapter to the origin and development of written constitutions, and the connection of our colonial charters therewith.