In the colonies, high levels of literacy for generations has led to an ability for self-government. Common man can stay informed and be a true 'citizen'. Many people in the Colonies are 'well educated', though self educated, through vigorous reading. Universities have been founded in the colonies. Teaching There are even more teachers now.
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.