When looking at the Declaration of Independence and the ideas in it you can clearly see how much John Locke influenced Thomas Jefferson's work. ... In the first paragraphs of both works you see similarities about the laws of Nature. The Declaration states that," to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..." ... This is evident in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence when Thomas Jefferson states his beliefs on the equality of man and the natural rights we should all have. ... ...

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The Enlightenment was a philosophical movement of the 18th century that emphasized the use of reason to analyze previously accepted doctrines and traditions and that brought about many humanitarian reforms and that is why it was also called the "Age of Reason-. ... His ideas not only influenced later Enlightenment thinkers, but also America and France because you can see that these ideas were expressed in the American Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of the Rights of Man. ... In conclusion, Locke and Voltaire made a great a great impact on many countries because through them the...

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He begins with general reflections about government and religion and then progresses onto the details of the colonial situation. ... Overall Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" provides a lot of information about the discussed topics. Paine fights for America's independence. ... This is a good book to read to bring knowledge about how other felt about the colonies having independence and what they went through while they were under Britain's rule. This book was published 6 months before the Declaration of Independence was signed and I'm sure it had a major impact of the declarati...

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Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). ... In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. ... He had helped the Americans in their conflict against Britain with his pamphlet Common Sense and possibly had also had a hand in writing the Declaration of Independence. ... " The crisis that happened was that he wanted America to separate from Britain for independence. ... The government responded t...

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The main focus of the state that locke maintained was only concerned about the people. ... John Locke had many theories about the government and the way it should be handled. ... John Locke had many good theories about people and their right that he felt very strongly about. ... Without a doubt John Locke had many good theories about people and their right that he felt very strongly about. ... When he was writing the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Franklin took many theories and ideas from Locke and incorporated them into Declaration of Independence. ...

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Morality is fundamentally about duty, the duty each individual has to abide by the natural law. ... The Founding Fathers, in the Declaration of Independence, speak of both natural rights and natural laws. ...

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In his view, the liberal state led to the changes in the ideas about the laws. ... " Furthermore, the author believed that the new American state confirmed that ideals about morals were up to each individual's judgments. ... " Furthermore, the liberal state emphasized that politics were not about salvation but about personal rights, and focused on economics and property. ... Furthermore, the liberal state also gave people hope about a better life in the future. "All men are created equal"- as Thomas Jefferson wrote in Declaration of Independence, people could believe ...

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This argument reappears in the American Declaration of Independence in 1776. ... Locke talked about how a monarch can be overthrown, which I believe is an excellent idea that is still used today, and for example in America we can impeach the President. And Rousseau talks about the majority vote, which is needed to impeach a president for example, so both of there political ideas were so in genius that we still use them almost everyday. ...

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Social and technological change in the seventeenth century brought about the greatest change to a seemingly ordinary concept that everyone experiences everyday- thought. Never before had such an immense change in the thought processes of a mass group of people, quite possibly the world over, occurre...

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England began to fall into it's epic constitutional crisis when Locke was about two years old. ... In 1671, Locke started a deliberation group to talk about principles of morality and religion, with about half a dozen friends of his. ... Locke's influence apparent in the Bill of Rights, the constitutional separation of powers, and the Declaration of Independence. Meanwhile, in France, Voltaire had popularized Locke's ideas about how the separations of powers were expanded by Brandon de Montesquieu. Locke's doctrine of natural rights appeared at the beginning of the French...

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The British goal was to raise about 100,000 dollars in the colonies. ... Lockes ideas were also used in the Declaration of Independence, which states every man has the natural right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." ...

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A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another, there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another, without subordination or subjection, unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him, by an evident and clear appointment, an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty. 5. ... The state...

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