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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• Albert Bushnell Hart:

  The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colo

• Albert Bushnell Hart:

  The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment

• Albert Bushnell Hart:

  Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarou

• Albert Bushnell Hart:

  The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance t

• Albert Bushnell Hart:

  More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.

• Albert Bushnell Hart:

  In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

• Albert Bushnell Hart:

  Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

• Albert Bushnell Hart:

  In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the ge

• Albert Bushnell Hart:

  In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each

• Albert Bushnell Hart:

  The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colon