In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
From Albert Bushnell Hart
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
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.
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.
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