the rights of the colonist
The rights of the colonists
The rights of the colonists.
the rights of the colonist's
To grow more crops .
To grow more crops .
bill of rights
Bill of Rights
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties listed many rights that were granted to the people living in the colony of Massachusetts. This was similar to the Bill of Rights that was added to the U.S. Constitution. Among the rights listed in the Massachusetts Body of Liberties were limited religious freedom and equal protection of the laws for landowners. It also banned punishments that were thought to be "inhumane, Barbarous or cruel."
bill of rights
Massachusetts
a wave
That depends on what you mean by "rights". The word is tossed around quite often without regard to what the founders were trying to actually set up. I would study The Basic Symbolism of the American Political Tradition by Kendall to understand how distorted this type of wording has become.