How long would have the American colonies remained under British rule if the parliament granted some semi-autocratic previleges to colonials in America? After all, the revolution was the result of constant unfavorable enforcements from a place 3000 miles away.

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See Canada for your answer.

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"I wish fervently that the Turkish barbarians be chased away immediately out of the country of Xenophon, Socrates, Plato, Sophocles and Euripides. If we wanted, it could be done soon but seven crusades of superstition have been undertaken and a crusade of honour will never take place. We know almost no city built by them; they let decay the most beautiful establishments of Antiquity, they reign over ruins."

- Voltaire