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

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In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special…
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed…
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to…
In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which…
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the…
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into…
The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for…
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of…

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In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty. — James Madison
Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments… — John Dickinson
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power… — James Madison
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of… — James Otis
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson
Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people. — John F. Kennedy
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. — Jean de la Bruyere
If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education?… — Diane Ravitch
We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none… — James Madison
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. — James Madison
Support charters; insist on change for failing schools. — Newt Gingrich

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