The similarities between American and British societies in terms of
the rights of individual liberty, suffrage, and property were both
American and British societies set up the ideas of fundamental
rights, rule of law and representative government. In terms of
individual rights, both American and British societies guarantees
the ideas from the Magna Carta which included the freedom from
illegal arrest, trial by jury, and no taxation without consent
etc.. In addition, both American and British societies provide the
rule of law to protect people’s fundamental rights and liberty that
everyone had to obey. In term of suffrage, both American and
suffrage provided limited suffrage to people in the societies to
white male property owners. Moreover, in term of property, same as
British society, laws in American society protected the owning of
property. For example, American colonists believed that the
security of life and liberty were based on the security of property
and one purpose of government was to protect property.

American and British societies were different in term of equality
of opportunity. American colonists had greater equality of
opportunities to achieve prosperity than people in British society
and there were equal chance for people to improve their life which
become the fundamental idea in American society. Unlike American
society, British society had a rigid class system in which some
wealthy and family name allowed the automatic success in a land
where other people had to work hard in order to survive. American
society and British society also differ in term of suffrage because
in American society, the people who had the right of suffrage were
offered a choice of competition candidates for office and
representatives. However, in British society, the voting of office
and representatives were limited by social classes.