How ironic is it that the crown considered each colony more autonomous than the neo-Yankees would deem states today. Colonies; their sovereignty from each other, was more understood by the crown and the colonist then than now. That memory seems to have been extinguished by the flood of statism, post Civil War.
You must be kidding the crown did not consider the colonies autonomous at all. If their legislatures were a problem to the crown the King just dismissed them and called for new ones or just refused to allow them to sit. If they passed laws the Crown did not like they were voided.