Just as there were similarities, the government that took place in the Colonies also had many differences with the British government, beginning with how their laws were considered.
All the way in Britain, people didn’t see their laws that much as a legal constitution, more like individual ideas put together in a document. Contrary to the British, the coloni
sts had spread their laws and political documents out into Royal Charters and other legal papers. Other organizations like the parliament didn’t have as much formality in Britain as they did in the colonies.
As history has taught us, voting was a right that took many years to become just and to be imparted under equality, in this time of history, the situation was in no means an exception to the facts, neither was it the same in both separate parties. In the mid 1700’s only 2/3 of the colonial men could participate in the suffrage, while only 1/4 of the British men could do the same for their country.
Still, having more men than the British out voting, the colonists were being controlled by people they had never heard of. In the late 1700’s the British parliament was at their best in charging taxes, thing that didn’t make the colonists half as content as they could be. While the British parliament thought they represented both: the British and the colonists, the colonists thought otherwise. People that were imposing taxes on the colonies were not elected by their population, they were elected by the governors all the way in England. Most of the people who charged those taxes had never even been to the colonies once. This was called Taxation without Representation.
Sooner or later, the colonists were sure to begin protesting under such unjust measures, little did they know this was just the beginning of Britain’s plan for them, and changes were just beginning.
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