Early Modern Corporatism, Part I: Post-Plague Corporate Charters
"[A] Continent...will be discovered and conquered by your means...and since you expose yourself to such danger to serve us, you should be rewarded for it."
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"[A] Continent...will be discovered and conquered by your means...and since you expose yourself to such danger to serve us, you should be rewarded for it."
"Navigation, trade, and commerce, in...the West-Indies, and Africa" is reserved exclusively to "the common united strength of the merchants...one General Company."
English monarchs used revenues from corporate charters to work around parliamentary control of the power to tax.