HISTORY

Patriots, also known as Whigs, were the colonists who rebelled against British monarchial
control. Their rebellion was based on the social and political philosophy of republicanism,
which rejected the ideas of a monarchy and aristocracy – essentially, inherited power. Instead,
the philosophy favored liberty and unalienable individual rights as its core values.
Republicanism would form the intellectual basis of such core American documents as the
Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights