?"Politics in America was therefore profoundly different from politics in England in that it operated at two levels, the level of the provincial [colonial] governments and the level of the central government at "home" [in England]; and it was the latter - more distant, less palpable, and less predictable - that was the more important. Americans had learned to live with this fact very early in their political history. By the mid-eighteenth century a stable pattern of informal communications had emerged, linking political forces in America directly to the political forces in England capable of overturning decisions taken in the colonies by the resident executive [often the Royal Governor]." Along with the factors described by Bailyn in this excerpt, which of the following most contributed to the nature of the royal government's involvement in the American colonies during the early 1700s?

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