Excerpt from A View of the Constitution of the British Colonies, in North-America and the West Indies, at the Time the Civil War Broke Out on the Continent of America: In Which Notice Is Taken of Such Alterations as Have Happened Since That Time, Down to the Present Period, With a Variety of Colony Precedents, Which Are Chiefly Adapted to the British West India IslandsOf the Briti/h Colonies in America - the nature of their dependence on the Mother Country, at the hreahing out of the Civil War, on the Continent of American-with fach alteration: as have taken place down to the prefent period, Page 1.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.