In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.
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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.
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Few characters in history are indispensable.
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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.
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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.
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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
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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.
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Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
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On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.