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The Declaration of Independence contains all of the following phrases except "monarchy and hereditary succession have laid the world in blood and ashes." From the rationalist philosophies of the Enlightenment, Americans of the 1760s and early 1770s derived the idea that individuals have certain "natural rights." By 1770, after five years of debate over American sovereignty, outspoken colonial leaders had repudiated Parliament and claimed equality for their own assemblies under the king. The author of the radical pamphlet Common Sense called for independence and republicanism. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the Boston Massacre of March 1770 or its aftermath? Radical Whigs accused the British of deliberately planning the killings.