More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
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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.
Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.
London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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