They wrote the constitution to establish a representative government.
I have no earthly idea
good governments get their power from their people!
Greece and Rome
well, James Madison was a republican who wanted the government to be run by the middle class citizens of the U.S.
Both the Republican party and the Democratic party believe that. The idea was first formed in a type of government called a Republic.
Although most of the founders were of one Christian denomination or another, the important idea was that all people could worship their God as they desired without interference from the government.
Dividing power among the branches is separation of powers. The Founders separated the powers so that no branch could overpower the other one.
Well, since you didn't say what "those" colonies were, we have no idea.
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Some of the American colonists after defeating the British were ready, in their glee of victory, to make George Washington king. Not only did Washington reject that idea out of hand but the idea of a new king was not the idea of most colonists. They wanted and received a republican form of government where power was not concentrated in the hands of a few.
The distinction doesn't seem particularly useful; it can happen either way, or they can happen together.Another answerYou need to first adopt an idea before you can adapt that idea. To adopt an idea means you accept it, or at least take it for consideration; to then adapt that idea means you alter it to fit - to be useful for - other circumstances or beliefs.