In point of fact, the European reaction to the Constitution was more correct than they knew. The colonists were able to pull off a new model of government in a way that Europeans simply could not. One of the advantages the Americans had was that they did not have a long-entrenched system of government or a centuries-old aristocracy or monarchy to deal with. The Americans were free to develop a system of government that drew from the best of the British model while getting rid of institutions such as the nobility and the monarchy that they judged as not helpful.
