The American political system was based on a medieval model, really.
As explained in Ideological Origins, pb p. 164, the central disagreement over representation hinged on the colonies looking back, to a medieval model for democracy, such as it had then been, rather than forward, to where Britain then stood.
However, among individual colonies, and their elites, both mercantile and slave holding planters, mostly radical Whigs, there were quite un medieval underlying reasons for advocating such a medieval model for representation, as against the English one.
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