On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

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 William Pitt the elder.

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

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.

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.