Well, that&#x27;s not exactly true.  American is another child of the Magna Carta and we definitely (at the North&#x27;s insistence) adopted the British economic system (Capitalism).  Originally, Americans fought for their rights as British subjects, and later turned towards independence when that was not going to happen.<p>Yes, the American government was a new thing, but it was built on a foundation already understood by the founding fathers.<p>I often wonder about the world in the British had given seats in the House of Commons to its bigger colonies.  Distance and communications speeds were problems as well as the government&#x27;s attitude toward the colonies.  It probably would have been cheaper than the world spanning war they ended up fighting with France during the American Revolution.