American British Empire

With a PoD of 1700, how do we get British North America to become the dominant part of the empire, ruling over India, huge parts of Africa, Australia, etc...

Bonus if this ends up much bigger than the British Empire OTL.
 
to quote Galba Otho Vitelius on my post about how to get all of British North America united "The British government conciliates the American patriots and those colonies don't revolt. By doing so, they undermine their financial position so badly that there is a revolution in England in the 1780s, before the French one and for similar reasons. One POD could be the health problems of George III developing earlier -he had an episode in the 1760s- necessitating a de factor or de jure regency that pursues different policies.

The Regent, with the insane George III in tow, flees to the American colonies which remain loyal. The revolutionary government in London proclaims that all American colonies still loyal to the Hanoverian tyrants are in revolt"

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/members/galba-otho-vitelius.94201/
 
Westminster conciliates the US colonies by giving them seats in Parliament. As British North America expands westwards, it grows in population and wealth, until eventually its representatives make up a majority of MPs (and possibly Peers as well). They decide that they don't like having to traverse the Atlantic to get to their legislature, and vote to move the capital to somewhere in BNA, with London remaining the ceremonial capital for coronations etc. There's a lot of grumbling in Britain proper, but people ultimately come to accept the new reality.

As a slight alternative to the above, have Westminster conciliate the colonies by setting up an Imperial Parliament, with both British and American (and later other colonial) representatives, to deal with foreign policy/defence, whilst Westminster itself and the various colonial assemblies deal with internal affairs in their respective countries. The American representatives might vote to move the IP to BNA, or they might not (if it scrupulously keeps its nose out of colonies' internal affairs, there'd probably be less concern about its location); even if they don't, North America would still be the dominant part (in terms of population, economy, etc.) of the Empire.
 
The question becomes when does the British Empire becomes the American Empire.

By 1907, the population of the United States was around twice that of the United Kingdom and all of its settler colonies (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) combined. Even this understates the level of dominance that a demographic Dominion of North America would have inside the empire, as it would certainly include much or all of OTL Canada as well as the OTL United States, as well as some or all of the UK's Caribbean colonies. If population alone was taken into account in apportionment for any Imperial Parliament, the only meaningful counterweight to North America would be India.
 
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