Question

What is one way the British government influenced the development of the government of the United States? The structure of the early U.S. government matched that of the British government. The U.S. government was structured to avoid the abuses of power seen in the British government. The U.S. followed the British model for elections and political participation. The British government sent ambassadors to aid in the writing of the U.S. Constitution.

Answer 1

Answer: Democracy was not created in a heartbeat. In a world where people were ruled by monarchs from above, the idea of self-government is entirely alien. Democracy takes practice and wisdom from experience.

The American colonies began developing a democratic tradition during their earliest stages of development. Over 150 years later, the colonists believed their experience was great enough to refuse to recognize the British king. The first decade was rocky. The AMERICAN REVOLUTION and the domestic instability that followed prompted a call for a new type of government with a constitution to guarantee liberty. The constitution drafted in the early days of the independent American republic has endured longer than any in human history.

Answer 2

Answer:

The U.S. government was structured to avoid the abuses of power seen in the British government.

Explanation:

The American Revolution was, in addition to an independence process, an ideological revolution, in which American people rebelled at the absolutism and tyranny that the British monarchy represented for them.

Americans protested especially against the taxes that the British government had established in the colonies, under the slogan "No taxation without representation". They saw the British Crown as a tyrannical ruler, who did not contemplate the needs of the settlers; and to the King as the main absolutist tyrant of that government.

Once the independence of the nation was achieved, the question of how to organize the government came to light. Although there were several positions in this regard, one issue was unanimous: the mistakes that the British had made would not be repeated, that is, they would not fall into single-person authoritarian governments.

This is how it was decided that the federal government would be exercised by a Continental Congress, composed equally of representatives of each state, so as to prevent a single-person government from re-tyrannizing the nation.