... were content to rule from a silent position. Historical legacy before 1714 supports this, with lessons learnt from a previous campaign whereby James II, prior to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, had tried to install authoritarian rule by abolishing the self-governing Puritan colonies and replacing them with the Dominion of New England. Aside from distaste for ... sovereign but were not accountable to the crown for any acts of government as their charters specify otherwise." When added to the fact that the land owning American population elected the representatives of these houses this wa...

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... of the population to remain are now the Canadiens. Even though that only later on, the British immigrants started arriving from the south who are loyalists trying to escape the American Revolution and when they arrived they did not even affect the Canadiens in their way of resisting the British assimilation. ...

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