The dim thinkers will continue to insist that the American Revolution was about nationality, because they can't understand liberty, and that concepts of liberty might be transatlantic and transnational. You might expect the penny to drop with the line "that all men are created equal"...
There were prominent people in Britain and Ireland who supported the American colonists' cause. They understood, as this sermon title says, that there are circumstances in which revolution was vindicated.
This sermon was preached in the University of Cambridge just six weeks before the Declaration of Independence, and by the most unlikely source – Richard Watson (Wikipedia here) who was King George III's Professor of Divinity. Full text on Archive.org here
The House of Lords, the House of Commons, and the King himself - Watson blasts all of them. An extract here:
“if the Nobility, forgetting the duty they owe the people in return for the rank and distinction they enjoy above the other members of the community, should ever abet the arbitrary designs of the Crown;
if the Commons should become so wholly selfish and corrupt, as to be ready to support any Men and any measures;
if lastly, the King should be so ignorant of his true interest, or so ill advised, as to use such degenerate Parliaments as the tools of a Tyrannic Government;
then we have no doubt in asserting, that the people will have a full right to resume the reins of Government into their own hands, to lop off the rotten gangrened members, and to purge the corruptions of the body politic in any manner they shall think”
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From The Principles of the Revolution Vindicated: A Sermon preached before the University of Cambridge, Wednesday 29 May 1776, by Richard Watson DD FRS, Regius Professor of Divinity and Archdeacon of Ely.
(PS: 'theology of liberty' is not the same as 'liberation theology')
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