Albert Bushnell Hart Quotes

Washington’s defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

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.

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 colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.