What led to tax appeals and other rights of private citizens? The carefully considered insights of the colonists leading up to The Revolutionary War.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.
U.S. Founders

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government,  that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his.
~ James  Madison, 1782