Your correspondent DAnalogKid writes
"You say that a dictatorship was chosen over this. A dictatorship was precisely what was left behind. No, worse than a dictatorship; a monarchy in which the king was supposed to be ruler by divine right, thereby making his commandments akin to dictum from God himself, and any opposition nothing short of heresy."
This is nonsense and drivel. The king was George III, who was king precisely because the English did not believe in divine right of kings. They threw out James II 90 years before for that reason. If they had accepted divine right of kings, Bonnie Prince Charlie, whom so many Americans today admire, would have been king instead. And he would have been as much a despot as his Italian cousins who ran the worst tyrannies in Europe.
England was a parliamentary state, the most advanced democracy in Europe, constrained by rule of law. Slavery had already been declared illegal on the mainland of Britain by the time of the American Revolution, and any American slave-owner who brought his/her slaves to England risked them being automatically freed. There was a growing movement to liberate slaves in the English colonies. These currents in England had not gone unnoticed amongst the propertied class in America.
Americans at the time misunderstood the English constitution of the day. That's why they granted their president far greater power than the English king of the time possessed. The irony is that the American president today is far more powerful and autonomous than parliament ever allowed the supposedly despotic king George III to be.