All the settler states of the Americas and Oceania that insisted on full independence.
And all the colonies that did the same.
After all, to do otherwise they would've had to create on the fly a caste of hereditary aristocrats, an hereditary monarchy, and worse than any mere established church, a whole collection of ex-officio Lords Spiritual.
Only so could they have reproduced the ancien regime of the European Mother Country.
Whether Spanish, Portuguese, French, or English.
The Dutch were already an odd case.
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