Massachusetts Government Act
05/13/1774 AD decreed
One of five measures (variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts) that enacted during the spring of 1774 to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
The Massachusetts Government Act abrogated the colony's charter and provided for a greater amount of royal control. Massachusetts had been unique among the colonies in its ability to elect members of its executive council. The act took away that right and instead gave the king the sole power to appoint and dismiss the council. Additionally, many civil offices that had been chosen by election were now to be appointed by the royal governor.
Town meetings were forbidden without consent of the governor. As Lord North explained to Parliament, the purpose of the act was "to take the executive power from the hands of the democratic part of government."
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George III of the United Kingdom (George William Frederick) King of the United Kingd...
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