In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

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

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.

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.

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.

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.