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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."
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"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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"Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves."
"Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves."
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