Most villages have one and a school. New Newspapers help create an informed citizenry. Taxation comes to be seen Developments as a right, not of Kings, but of the representative legislature, an extension of the people themselves. Power is shifting from the King to the Legislature, and from the Wealthy to the middle class. Philosophers now openly talk and write of the 'rights of the common man', and of a 'contract' between the ruled and the ruler.
Many colonies practice religious freedom and seperation of church and state.
Many colonial legislatures have seized power from the colonial governors by using the power of taxation and appropriation. In Europe the Industrial Revolution has begun. A rise and resurgence of literature is beginning. The first Novels appear in print.