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Americans wanted independence from Great Britain regardless of its form of government.

The point was that tax wealth should go to the colonies, not the empire; this was an anti-tax and anti-colonization revolution, not an anti-aristocratic one except incidentally.

As you know, many wanted Washington to become king, but he thought it unwise given the dispersed nature of the colonies.