“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.” StatesGovernmentMiddleRelationTownsWesternActiveLocalsCountyColonyLocal GovernmentForerunners Author:Albert Bushnell Hart
“In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.” PeopleFeelsGovernmentDesireTurnsPoliticsIndividualEconomyReadyInstitutionsLeavingAffairActiveTyrannyManageProportionLiberalismAppetitePerpetualInitiativeAccustomedInterventionTutelageRepelling Author:John Stuart Mill