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As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.
'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
Few characters in history are indispensable.
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
