Why did the colonists value their rights so highly?

Colonists valued their rights so highly because they wanted to be able to have power in their defence and to make sure that they felt they were being treated the way they believed was good. Rights are what the colonists used to protect themselves and also it brought a lot higher form of safety among the colonists.

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answer: in october 1962, an american u-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the soviet union on the island of cuba. president kennedy did not want the soviet union and cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. he met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem.

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the founding fathers did not think women were asmportant as mern were and men could do more and better things then women