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

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

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.

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

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.