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  2. Home rule - Wikipedia

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    Home rule is the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens. [1] It is thus the power of a part (administrative division) of a state or an external dependent country to exercise such of the state's powers of governance within its own administrative area that have been decentralized to it by the central government.

  3. Ranch - Wikipedia

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    The largest hacienda/ranch in the world during Colonial times was the Sanchez Navarro estate with more than 16 million acres. The hacienda “San Ignacio del Buey” owned by the friar Don Juan Caballero in the Huasteca region of San Luis Potosi had, at its height, 600,000 hectares or 1.5 million acres.

  4. Campo de Cahuenga - Wikipedia

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    The Campo de Cahuenga, (/ k ə ˈ w ɛ ŋ ɡ ə / ⓘ) near the historic Cahuenga Pass in present-day Los Angeles, was an adobe ranch house on the Rancho Cahuenga where the Treaty of Cahuenga was signed between Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont and General Andrés Pico in 1847, ending hostilities in California between Mexico and the United States.

  5. Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    In domestic matters, the colonies were largely self-governing on many issues; however, the British government did exercise veto power over colonial legislation, and regardless of the type of colonial government, retained control of the law and equity courts; judges were selected by the British government and served at the king's pleasure.

  6. Colonial charters in the Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    Proprietary charters gave governing authority to the proprietor, who determined the form of government, chose the officers, and made laws subject to the advice and consent of the freemen. All colonial charters guaranteed to the colonists the vague rights and privileges of Englishmen, which would later cause trouble during the American Revolution.

  7. Colonial South and the Chesapeake - Wikipedia

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    The House of Burgesses, as with most colonial assemblies, was elected by free, white, landowning men. [20] All the colonies had a standard government: a governor and a council appointed by the crown, and an assembly or house of representatives that was elected by the people.

  8. Proprietary colony - Wikipedia

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    This type of indirect rule eventually fell out of favour in the English colonial empire due to a variety of reasons, including the gradual sociopolitical stabilisation of England's American colonies, the easing of bureaucratic difficulties in managing the colonies and increasing economic or administrative difficulties faced by proprietors.

  9. Colonial Office - Wikipedia

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    The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created in 1768 from the Southern Department to deal with colonial affairs in North America (particularly the Thirteen Colonies, as well as, the Canadian territories recently won from France), until merged into the new Home ...