Question

For most of the period of colonial objections to England's policies from 1763 through 1775, colonists insisted that they were just defending their traditional "Rights as Englishmen" against recent British violations of them. Explain how Americans, in declaring independence in 1776, radically redefined the source of the rights they now claimed. g

Answer 1

Answer: The Declaration of Independence, even if it was inspired by the concept of English liberty, was founded on the idea that all men and women in every country have a set of unalienable rights that were provided by the Creator.

Step-by-step explanation:

Americans subscribed to universal rights and declared their independence from a government that dismissed them.

This radical redefinition led them to abandon the English monarchy to start a representative democracy.