Sure we did, the anti-Americans, we called "The British", even though on April 19th, 1775, the farmers at that bridge considered themselves "Englishmen" fighting to protect their rights *as Englishmen". We did have courts that ignored the (common) law, and the written law of Great Britain, such as the Magna Carta. Of we did not have a written Constitution then.
then right after the Constitution we had the Tories, many of whom moved to the Bahamas ...now if we could get the communist caucus to move to the Bahamas............