Re: The joy of Patents

"Why Nations Fail"
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity-ebook/dp/B0058Z4NR8/

original settlement, Jamestown ... English planning on emulating the
Spanish model, enslave the local natives to support the
settlement. Unfortunately the North American natives weren't as
cooperative and the settlement nearly starved. Then started out switching
to sending over some of the other populations from the British Isles
essentially as slaves ... the English Crown charters had them as
"leet-man" ...  pg27: The clauses of the Fundamental Constitutions laid
out a rigid social structure. At the bottom were the "leet-men," with
clause 23 noting, "All the children of leet-men shall be leet-men, and
so to all generations."

My wife's father was presented with a set of 1880 history books for some
distinction at West Point by the Daughters Of the 17th Century
http://www.colonialdaughters17th.org/

which refer to if it hadn't been for the influence of the Scottish
settlers from the mid-atlantic states, the northern/English states would
have prevailed and the US would look much more like England with monarch
("above the law") and strict class hierarchy.

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