Albert B. Hart Quotes (6 Quotes)

The English common law was accepted in all the colonies, but it was modified everywhere by statutes, according to the need of each colony.

The county was also organized in New England, but took on chiefly judicial and military functions, and speedily abandoned local administration.

Foreseeing the struggle, the French began to construct a chain of forts connecting the St. Lawrence settlements with the Mississippi.

New Englanders were settled in compact little communities they liked to live near the church, and where they could unite for protection from enemies.

The people on both sides of the water were accustomed to an orderly government, in which laws were made and administered with regularity and dignity.

To some degree the colonial conception of government had been affected by the English Commonwealth of 1649, and the English Revolution of 1688.