Measured by its sovereign hotel, the Continental, it would stand at the head of our economic civilization.

[Sidenote: Continental Congress (1774-1789).

This congress was called "continental" to distinguish it from the "provincial congresses" held in several of the colonies at about the same time.

The Continental Congress began to exercise a certain amount of directive authority from the time of its first meeting in 1774.

Meanwhile the Revolutionary War had advanced into its last stages, having been carried on from the outset under the general direction of the Continental Congress.

The Continental Congress was not the parent of our Federal Congress; the former died without offspring, and the latter had a very different origin, as we shall soon see.

[Sidenote: Nature and powers of the Continental Congress] The Continental Congress was an assembly of delegates from the thirteen states, which from 1774 to 1783 held its sessions at Philadelphia.

[Sidenote: Nature and powers of the Continental Congress] The Continental Congress was an assembly of delegates from the thirteen states, which from 1774 to 1783 held its sessions at Philadelphia.

"It declared the independence of the United States; it contracted an offensive and defensive alliance with France; it raised and organized a Continental army; it borrowed large sums of money, and pledged what the lenders understood to be the national credit for their repayment; it issued an inconvertible paper currency, granted letters of marque, and built a navy."

In truth the situation of the Continental Congress was an illogical situation.

We have seen that the fundamental weakness of the Continental Congress lay in the fact that it could not tax the people.

The Continental Congress: a.

Distinguish between the Continental Congress and the Federal.

The powers of the Continental Congress: a. Its homelessness and wandering.

The Continental Congress not a sovereign body: a. The nature of real government.

The objection to granting the power of taxation to the Continental Congress.

As they represent the state, they are chosen by its legislature and not by the people; but when they have taken their seats in the senate they do not vote by states, like the delegates in the Continental Congress.

His title of "President" is probably an inheritance from the presidents of the Continental Congress.

It has always been England's object to maintain a certain balance of power between the continental nations of Europe, and to prevent any one of them attaining a pronounced supremacy.

There is also a not inconsiderable army available for a continental war.

A European balance of power can no longer be termed a condition which corresponds to the existing state of things; it can only have the disastrous consequences of rendering the forces of the continental European States mutually ineffective, and of thus favouring the plans of the political powers which stand outside that charmed circle.

It has always been England's policy to stir up enmity between the respective continental States, and to keep them at approximately the same standard of power, in order herself undisturbed to conquer at once the sovereignty of the seas and the sovereignty of the world.

If, on the other hand, England develops her land forces only with the objects of safeguarding the command of her colonies, repelling a very improbable hostile invasion, and helping an allied Power in a continental war, the general political situation explains the reason.

As a matter of fact, England can never be involved in a great continental European war against her will.

Modern continental plays.