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Liberalism was a fundamental ideology of the colonists that became a principle catalyst for the American Revolution. Guided by years of financial and cultural independence and stability, the American colonists were becoming increasingly distinct from their English counterparts thousands of miles across the sea. With the English empire struggling to maintain dominance over the colonies, it was merely a matter of time before the colonists pursued a government on the basis of individual liberty.
Liberalism had a heritage that stemmed from the eighteenth century movement of the Enlightenment. With reason as a way to major reform, philosophers like John Locke took this principle and applied it to ideas of a limited government with greater rights for the common people. In Two Treatises of Government, John Locke stated, “Man in the state of Nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute Lord of his own Person and Possessions, equal to the greatest and subject to no Body”.......

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