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- Massachusetts Government Act
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, effectively abrogating the Massachusetts Charter of 1691, one of the causes of the American Revolution
The Massachusetts Government Act (14 Geo. 3. c. 45) was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, receiving royal assent on 20 May 1774. The act effectively abrogated the 1691 charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and gave its royally-appointed governor wide-ranging powers. The colonists declared that it altered, by parliamentary fiat, the basic structure of colonial government, and vowed ... Wikipedia
