The Loyalists were afraid of chaos erupting without the legal institutions of Britain. They also did not want to be separated from the commercial empire that their businesses or plantations depended upon. There was a sense of security in being part of the most powerful nation on earth.
Answer:
it was a multi-ethnic and multi-linguistic empire
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