I expect general Washington will have been more likely to support the revolutionaries as he is one of the men who helped organised and lead the American colonists.
The Protestant Reformation, with its antipathy toward received religious dogma, was another precursor. Perhaps the most important sources of what became the Enlightenment were the complementary rational and empirical methods of discovering truth that were introduced by the scientific revolution.
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Answer: cival rights
Explanation: it would be cival rights because they are rights that every person is entitled to when they are born and they can not be taken away