“ In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763. ”
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
~ Albert Bushnell Hart
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.
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.
