"The pre-revolutionary British policy of loose imperial enforcement that allowed the American colonies to develop largely self-governing economic and political institutions."
Salutary Neglect
The pre-revolutionary British policy of loose imperial enforcement that allowed the American colonies to develop largely self-governing economic and political institutions.
Where This Idea Comes From
The historical starting point of "No Representation, No Guns": 150 years (1607 to the 1760s) of loose British imperial enforcement that let the American colonies develop genuine self-governing institutions, producing a population with no lived memory of any other arrangement by the time real taxation arrived.