ABSTRACT
The United States can claim with some justification to be the mother of liberal democracies. The nation was first forged as a confederation and then a closer knit federation of small British colonies on the East Coast of North America which had successfully rebelled against the British overlord. The propensity for the United States colonies to resent being controlled by a distant regime controlled by aristocrats and the monarchy is not surprising, given that many of the early settlers to the United States were refugees from religious or political repression in Britain and Ireland.
