The federal government is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the president, and the federal courts, respectively.
<span>Erastus Ladd
suggested a Free State election in Kansas Territory when he to Hiram Hill who
at that time, returned from the Territory of Massachusetts. Ladd also
anticipated the development of railroad line between Lawrence and Delaware
lands when he experience delay in Hill’s receiving a map of West Lawrence.</span>
In 1636, Roger Williams settled at the tip of Narragansett Bay after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views, on land granted to him by the Narragansett tribe. He called the site "Providence Plantation" and declared it a place of religious freedom. <span>Critics at the time sometimes referred to it as "Rogue's Island".
</span>On July 15, 1663 King Charles II granted the Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations<span>. Colonial Rhode Island became a Charter Colony which was largely self-governed. The charter established the rules of government, but allowed the Rhode Island colonists a great amount of freedom within those rules.</span>
They did not want the states to have all the power
