I would say many thing from life liberty and pursuit of happiness have come through freedom of newspapers talking about government issues or thoughts many books about openly opinionated articles were allowed from these themes. (I'm not an expert just giving a sort of ideas )
The birdwatchers, a noun is a person place or thing
I use to live in a house down by the river ?
I'm pretty sure the last one is incorrect as it become a constitution monarchy not a ruling power of England.