What political system did departing settlers want?

Was departure simply a choice between accepting the English system and leaving?

Some people left because the English system did not match their beliefs and tried to establish their preferred version elsewhere.

Some settlers wanted to create a British political system that matched their own expectations. Their children could inherit that ideal of how government should work rather than a description of how institutions in Britain actually operated. The result, in this interpretation, was an older constitutional outlook developing for about a century in a different environment. The comparison places the later American constitutional outlook closer to assumptions associated with the Protectorate than to Britain's subsequent settlement.