Here's one explanation from a bunch of anti-government (actually anti-oppressive-government) extremists.
Declaration of Independence - Text Transcript
Enjoy.
Quite true. Parliament's attemps to impose an Anglican Episcopate on the colonists early in the eighteenth century aroused suspicions of precedent and the subordination of liberty to prerogative that proved absolutely real in the 1760s and '70s.
The Americans, members of the commonwealth who enjoyed unprecedented liberties and trememdous levels of happiness and prosperity, confronted a torrent of government intrusion and Toryism with violence and in short order. They concluded during the passage and implemantation of the Stamp Act, the Townsend duties, the Sugar Act, the Tea Act, the Boston Port Act, The Administration of Justice Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Quebec Act, the Quartering Act, the creation of the American Board of Customs Commissioners, stricter enforcement of the Navigation Laws, arbitrary judicial tenure and salaries, and a flurry of other measures and intrusions by Britain that her ministers had embarked on a "deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery."*
One of those opposing the Whigs was Lord Bute, who said that the people "have too much liberty." Does he sound like a typical lefty? Of course he does. “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.”
* Thomas Jefferson