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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
Few characters in history are indispensable.
In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.
More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
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... →
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new... →
The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making... →
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have... →
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