Authority Central In the brink of colonization, wealth was in the eyes of many monarchs. England, searching for the best way to amass in wealth, saw mercantilism. Mercantilism was a theory in which a country was to export more and import less, therefore making the gold and silver flow into the country’s treasury. A great way to import less was if a country could provide its own needs. When a country can’t provide …showed first 75 words of 608 total…

…showed last 75 words of 608 total…government to fit the needs of those governed. They scorned the Crown’s authority and did not respect it. The representative governments of Massachusetts and Virginia show how it was nearly impossible for the King to have authority over the colony. The House of Burgesses, the Bay Colony legislature, and other forms of government controlled the colonies instead of the monarchy. Self-government therefore obliterated the King’s hopes of centralizing the authority of the colonies.