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On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
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.
Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, – the local and the general.
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
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.
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.
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.
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 any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
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.
The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
