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nlargeinen1 of freedom and the development of law mor itionnlh and forcefulh and hroadh than had ever I n don bj an\ othei nation, And Its standards of liberty I II gradually an ling system of law have sto I Hi t \ of i < ind of tinged conditions hi ai th.-\ r i on found tions whi i n immutable and accord with fundamental principles which the Infinite conscience of the world hold* to I uncliai

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But English ii dom did no1 i -in to ito full Bower in a d s. mii\ was assui ii befoi liberty was lined. I advam me would move faster than othei nnl dill t < bitl iti a and fratricidal war. Som >ke a\ ty and w \ >rld and set up governn u< in th wilder] Tl. .lit English traditions and laws and institutions with ] hem. Thej w uld ive behind some thin > not well but th ex] ed in atials to follow the English models. In tl pel as and in their j litical o inization they w wei lad be, and expected to continue to b ;ubjt to tin kinjj and p 'liament ol England. In time other g d ;

ui t ui shoi Some of them brought idea- and

ustituti f their own. ( lonial relations were es blished Ei lish though! and feeling and usag< H somewhat u 1, but in ntials the English exercis I introl and En ih j j)i!t\ prevailed. A now nation I suited. It was n quite lik tl English n, but it no\ r ised to be an English nation. dation, \ irk in the o] n air, led liberty to grow, but i spect for governmei did not .mow Governmental limitations were irk me, l m p the s i was distasteful. Our fathi a une to be oj I to parlian nts as well as to kings. The} came to be j all >< nmeiit thai could govern, Theii prejuv

di< 9 can I them alne to cha< and but for the m \e and

itiousnei am! •urcefulness of their rare would have carried them to d« ruction. Separation was imperative and i citable. Unhappily it had to come by violence. The fact that independence was gained by war, ami was fidlowed hv another war with England, estranged (ov long years both the older nation and the younger one from the influences