books.google.com - "Americans did not rebel from Great Britain because they wanted a different government. They rebelled because they believed that Parliament was violating constitutional precepts. Colonial Whigs did not fight for American rights. They fought for English rights."—from the Preface John Phillip Reid goes...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Concept_of_Representation_in_the_Age.html?id=xH2lEKIZ4yMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Concept of Representation in the Age of the American Revolution