No better place to look than the first 8 pages of Bailyn, Ideological Origins.
The colonists were fed radical pap originating in the English Civil War (of course it went farther back, to, say, Jesus' followers (not Jesus), Athens (false idol), and also to Roman republicans, etc), transmuted by later pamphleteers.
None of those ideas had any traction whatsoever in British politics, especially after 1688, about the time Trenchard and Gordon began to fulminate on liberty over there.
This was not the Enlightenment, it was the Unenlightenment.
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