TY - JOUR
AU - Osgood, Herbert L.
AB - THE CORPORATION AS A FORM OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. IL III. T/ie Cor/oraie Colony. T is now necessary to show how the last and most important stage in the development of the corporation as a form of colonial government was passed. In England, as the result of the combination of the council with the business corporation, two distinct types of organization had been produced. It remains to be seen how an open corporation of the London type — that is, one in which the membership was susceptible of indefinite increase — became merged in the colony which it was itself creating; and how, as a consequence of this, it discarded old functions and adopted new ones, thereby becoming radi­ cally changed as to the purposes, though not as to the form, of its existence. This change, it has been said, was accomplished in two ways : by the transfer of the governing body of the cor­ poration and ultimately of its members and interests into the colony, and by the creation of a corporation on the place. These events were of suificient importance to make an epoch in the history of English colonization ; for, if we view them from 
TI - The Corporation as a Form of Colonial Government. II
JO - Political Science Quarterly
DO - 10.2307/2139935
DA - 1896-09-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-corporation-as-a-form-of-colonial-government-ii-3xPmV3EbnP
SP - 502
EP - 533
VL - 11
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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