The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The way in that the local governments established by the English colonists reflected major political ideas and traditions in history was the following.
English colonists based their ideas on the government in the concepts of the representative government and limited government. The English people had important documents that influenced the way they established their colonies in America, such as the Magna Carta that was a very representative document of British Politics and law, as well as the English Bill of Rights that later influenced the American Bill of Rights.
I'm not sure, but I'll try to help. Maybe it's continental congress he could run for.
