Taxation without representation, the colonists were taxed by the British without the Colonists own government being consulted. Another reason was the that the British did not allow the Colonists to move into the newly aquired area of the northwest region(Ohio, Kentucky etc.), because the British promised the area to the Native Americans. And may I note the Colonists actually considered themselves to be British.
The answer is B) John Locke.
He asserted in his 1689 work 'Two Treatisies of Government" that people are naturally subject to a monarch.
The British would cede all lands east of the Mississippi River and North to Canada to the United States except for Florida, which would be given back to Spain.
This is a simple definition of his philosophy called Dualism.
