The Independents rejected the State and the Church equally as theological authorities, and claimed the right of private judgment, with the corollary of religious toleration. ... If each individual had a right to his own theological opinions, had he not, perhaps, other rights as well? ... Hence the doctrine of the Rights of Man, carried across the Atlantic by the defeated followers of Cromwell, embodied by Jefferson in the American Constitution, and brought back to Europe by the French Revolution.
Source: Power, 1938.
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