... governing politicians often made their rule over the colonies ineffective. In the years leading up to the final decade before the American Revolution, the relationship between Great Britain and her colonies in North America continued to deteriorate. Relations began to worsen with the great victory over the French and Indians in the Seven Years War. Unwelcome British troops had remained in the colonies after the war. Debts from this war caused the Prime Minister at the time ... them(Blum 95). During these years of ineffective rule, the causes of the Revolutionary War emerged. Laws and po...

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... governing body in England, did not have the power to make decisions or to enforce decrees. Due to the distractions from the complex constitutional issues and ineffective governmental organization the colonists felt further separated from England(Blum 51). The political scene in England was laced with corruption. Officers of the government sent to the colonies were often bribe-taking politicians that were not smart enough to hold government ... them(Blum 106). During these years of ineffective rule, the causes of the Revolutionary War emerged. Laws and policies enacted were self-serving,...

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... that those ideologies become the basis for the Revolutionary movement in the American colonies. With the colonies growing by leaps and bounds, its inhabitants were looking for more control over their own lives. Although the colonial governments were growing in power and support, the British statesmen at home refused to evolve with the developing colonies. Few British statesmen and politicians understood what this development ... of separate functioning branches of government was what preserved liberty of government. Since 1660 England had been absorbed into the idea of separation of fun...

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