On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances. The Rights asserted by the First Continental Congress included:

Resolved, N.C.D. 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty and property: and they have never ceded to any foreign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.

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Resolved, 4. That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council: and as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances, cannot properly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, . . .

Resolved, N.C.D. 5. That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.

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Resolved, N.C.D. 8. That they have a right peaceably to assemble, consider of their grievances, and petition the king; and that all prosecutions, prohibitory proclamations, and commitments for the same, are illegal.

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Resolved, N.C.D. 10. It is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the English constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other; that, therefore, the exercise of legislative power in several colonies, by a council appointed, during pleasure, by the crown, is unconstitutional, dangerous and destructive to the freedom of American legislation

The abbreviation “N.C.D.” stands for the Latin phrase “nemine contradicente” and translates as “without anyone speaking against it.” It indicates the resolution was adopted by unanimous agreement.

These Rights claimed by the First Continental Congress on behalf of all Americans should be familiar to Americans today. This Declaration of Rights also shows that the Patriots found these Rights to be self-evident. They were not bestowed on the American people subsequently in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Instead in those documents the Founding Fathers laid out the Rights that Americans and all people are entitled to claim.

Source: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-and-resolves-first-continental-congress