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1. "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." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
2. "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." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
3. "Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
4. "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." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
5. "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." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
6. "The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
7. "Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
8. "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." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
9. "In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
10. "In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
11. "The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
12. "From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
13. "As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
14. "Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
15. "England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
16. "Few characters in history are indispensable." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
17. "In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
18. "In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
19. "More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
20. "On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
21. "Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
22. "In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart
23. "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." ~ Albert Bushnell Hart

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