[101] This provision (adopted also from the "Laws Agreed upon in England") is the first attempt in a constitution to establish a regular method of amendment. The attempt to exclude a portion of the document from amendment, so common for long afterward, begins here also (next paragraph).
[102] Five years later came an Indian uprising in which at least 300 colonists lost their lives.
[103] As governor of Virginia, Berkeley is disposed to side with the colony against the English policy. Cf. 19, note, below.
[104] Even as negroes were packed, the slaver of that time rarely carried a hundred slaves.
[105] Italicized by the editor. Cf. 11, above, and the note.
[106] This is a gross overstatement on Berkeley's part. Cf. American History and Government, § 96. It is notable, however, that even a courtier, like Berkeley, as a colonial governor, takes the point of view of his province against English policy. Cf. ib., § 118.
[107] Then why no Virginia ships before 1660?
[108] Cf. No. 35, above.
[109] Queen Anne.
[110] A reference to the expulsion of James II.