In some colonies, a Royal Navy captain arrived, found the legal arrangements inadequate, and had the ship's officers draft a constitution. The process resembled an improvised wardroom exercise more than a conventional constitutional assembly. Although unmistakably imperial, parts of these arrangements could survive because later governments found them practical and competently written.
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Royal Navy officers sometimes drafted colonial constitutions
An aside on the Royal Navy as an imperial lawgiver shows captains and wardroom officers improvising written government where colonial institutions were weak.