The Royal Disallowance.

The article discusses how the royal disallowance of laws by England affected English colonies in America. Disallowance was an executive act which allowed the English king to regulate laws established by colonial legislatures without consultation from Parliament or the English Privy Council. Colonial laws were subject to examination and approval by royal authorities and the Privy Council, which would forward laws to a committee and from there to the British Board of Trade for review and possible amending. Laws could be disallowed if they ran contrary to the British constitution, failed to protect British subjects and commerce, were passed by colonial legislatures that had exceeded their authority or were ill-advised or oppressive.