Unlike states that began as British colonies with some representative government, democracy bypassed Louisiana under French and Spanish rule.
Ten British colonies formed a pre-independence Federation of the West Indies in 1958.
Yet again, this 54-member organisation - mainly former British colonies - is confronting divisions in its ranks on human rights.
Other former British colonies from Barbados to Kenya to India have either completely retired or scaled back use of judicial wigs.
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Those 13 British colonies on a sliver of the East Coast were the forerunners of what would become the 50 United States.
In January the group petitioned the Commonwealth, made up of former British colonies, to refer Zambia to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group and launch an independent investigation.
In the end, some 80, 000 quit the new republic for Britain, the British colonies in the Caribbean and especially for Canada, where their influence has been lasting.
But the decision by Nigeria and South Africa to cancel the meeting would effectively see Zimbabwe readmitted to the 54-nation grouping of mainly former British colonies, Mr Howard admitted.
The fact that these nations were British colonies is also an advantage in that they inherited a similar civil service, political system, a judicial system and the English language, features that would make the integration easier than the union of Europe.
In the 17th century our British overlords didn't dream the colonies would become hotbeds of individual land-ownership.
In the mid-17th century, English law ruled that any European wines shipped to the colonies had to go via British ports.
You know, 13 colonies coming together defying the British Empire, that's hard.
After the war, the British and French refused to give up their colonies without a fight, and the Soviet Union fueled a Cold War by attempting to restore, and build upon, the older czarist empire in eastern Europe and southern and western Asia.
The jury soon became standard in criminal and civil cases at common law, and its use spread with the British empire, nowhere more so than in the American colonies.
Among the most sought after are a collection of early revolutionary war muskets produced by the Committee of Safety, a group of American gun makers who copied British muskets and supplied them to militia units fighting for the colonies.
In days of old, all products sold in the English Colonies had to suffer the regulations of being shipped on British ships from British ports and taxed accordingly.
Like many British companies, the two firms' overseas operations are skewed towards Britain's former colonies such as America and Canada.
As British foreign policy expert Lawrence Freedman pointed out, American power is based on alliances rather than colonies, and is associated both with an ideology that encourages individual aspirations and with a system that provides the means for people to achieve them.
As British foreign policy expert Lawrence Freedman has pointed out, American power is based on alliances rather than colonies, and is associated both with an ideology that encourages individual aspirations and with a system that provides the means for people to achieve them.
The British declined to make Mr Bird a knight, an honour often handed out to successful people in former colonies.
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