Rights of Englishmen

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The "rights of Englishmen" are the traditional rights of English subjects and later English-speaking subjects of the British Crown.

In the 18th century, some of the colonists who objected to British rule in the thirteen British North American colonies that would become the first United States argued that their traditional^[1] rights as Englishmen were being violated. The colonists sought to retain the rights they or their ancestors had traditionally enjoyed in England, including the establishment of a local, representative government. Their demands were especially focused on issues of judicial fairness such as opposition to being transported to England for trial and the principle of no taxation without representation.^[2] Belief in these rights subsequently became a widely accepted justification for the American Revolution.^[3][4]