partial answer until you tell me I am on the right track
Religious Freedom....Many Americans came from persecution in Europe and England.
Self-Government ...Even with oversight by the English the colonies, incl the two chartered colonies developed the idea of their representatives speaking for them to the British-appoointed governors
Influence of religious leaders like the Puritans and their idea of covenant
But the greatest influence would be the Bible, as shown in the great recent book Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution by James P Byrd
“Recently, Dr. Donald S. Lutz and Dr. Charles S. Hyneman made an extensive study to determine which books the Founders relied upon for the basic ideas that went into the formulation of the United States Constitution.
“They reviewed an estimated 15,000 items, and closely perused the political content of 2,200 books, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and monographs which were published between 1760 and 1805. The most significant items were selected which amounted to 916 articles. These were carefully analyzed and numerically coded as to content as well as the references cited by the leaders of that era.
“It very quickly became apparent where the focus of interest was concentrated in the minds of the Founding Fathers. Of the thousands of citations quoted to support their ideas, 34% came from one source — the Bible.
