单选题 The author mentions all of the following as evidence that the revolutionary colonists were more intent upon expanding their roles in the old power order than in creating a new one EXCEPT

• (A) The system of commerce implemented after the revolution was relatively similar to the one that existed before it.
• (B) They established a chain of executive command which strongly resembled that which was in place before the revolution.
• (C) Their only attempt to change class structure was to outlaw the development of an aristocracy.
• (D) They maintained the same exclusive and undemocratic system of suffrage that existed prior to the war.
• (E) The colonists remained indifferent to the institution of slavery which a genuine revolution might have rectified.