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| The profit motive was thus dominant in the establishment of all the American colonies save one; because of this original impulse, attempts would be made to hold settlers in the position of employees beholden for subsistence to a trading company, or in the status of liege servants to semi-feudal proprietors. |
| This caused resentment with the result that most colonies changed over, in time, from corporate (charter) or proprietary to royal control; after their experience with corporations and proprietors, many colonists came to believe that royal governors could not be worse, and might be better. |
| Governor Winthrop feared and distrusted the "commons" as the ignoble sort, and believed that democracy was the "meanest and worst" of all forms of government. |
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