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Rights of Englishmen
The rights of Englishmen are the perceived traditional rights of the subjects of the monarch of England. Some colonists that objected to British rule in the British colonies in North America argued that their traditional rights as "Englishmen" were being violated. This subsequently became a justification for the American Revolution.
The American colonies had since the 17th century been fertile ground for libertarian opinion within the spectrum of European political discourse. However, as the ratification of the Declaration of Independence approached, the issue among the colonists of which particular rights were significant became divisive. George Mason, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, stated that "We claim nothing but the liberty and privileges of Englishmen in the same degree, as if we had continued among our brethren in Great Britain." The nature of the discussion itself can be seen to be revolutionary.
==Historical background==
Judge William Blackstone called them "The absolute rights of every Englishman", and explained how they had been established slowly over centuries of English history, in his book on ''Fundamental Laws of England'', which was the first part of his influential ''Commentaries on the Laws of England''.〔Blackstone, ''Fundamental Laws of England'', the first part of ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'', pp. 123–124. Scanned in text available at (Yale Law School Libraries online ). Accessed August 26, 2010.〕 They were certain basic rights that all subjects of the English monarch were understood to be entitled to,〔 such as those expressed in Magna Carta since 1215, the Petition of Right in 1628 and the Bill of Rights 1689.
Some scholars reasoned that the 18th century colonists ''could'' "claim all the rights and protections of English citizenship." In addition Americans American Revolution claimed they had "improved on the rights of Englishmen" by creating additional, purely American rights.〔
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