The ideal of fraternity was embraced by revolutionaries in France but not in America. Why was fraternity not part of revolutionary speeches and documents in the British colonies? American revolutionaries were more interested in the rights of the individual than the idea of loyalty to a group.

The idea of a brotherhood in American was too similar to the power of England's royal and noble blood lines.

Fraternity was a French word that did not mean anything to most Americans at that time.

Fraternity was an idea that conflicted with the American Revolution's emphasis on loyalty to kings.