<Li> The new social history approach looks at community social structure to find issues that became magnified into colonial cleavages . </Li> <Li> The ideological approach centers on republicanism in the Thirteen Colonies . The ideas of republicanism dictated that the United States would have no royalty or aristocracy or national church . They did permit continuation of the British common law, which American lawyers and jurists understood, approved of, and used in their everyday practice . Historians have examined how the rising American legal profession adapted the British common law to incorporate republicanism by selective revision of legal customs and by introducing more choice for courts . </Li>

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