“ 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
“ 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. 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. Albert Bushnell Hart
