There are various stages of Political Socialization: Pre-school (ages 2-4), Early Childhood (ages 5-8), Late Childhood (9-11) and Adolescence (12-17). ... In the Early Childhood stage kids can recognize the personalization of government such as holidays; Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Barbara Jordan. ... The last stage of Early Political Socialization is Adolescence (ages 12-17). ... The types of people that I interviewed were mostly in their adolescence to their early twenties. ... I am glad that I grew up around fairly politically literate people my entire life. ...

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Instead, they ruled themselves directly; each man was a life long member of the decision making body. ... Locke's book, Two Treatises (published in 1690), stated that under the "social contract," the government's job was to protect "natural rights", which included "the right to life, liberty, and the ownership of property." ... In this great document, written by Thomas Jefferson, many ideas are taken from the aforementioned philosophers, Locke and Rousseau. From Locke, Jefferson borrowed the idea that all men are created equal, and he altered the right to life, liberty and prop...

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My life is no longer my life it has to be with in the realm of society. ... In early Massachusetts you could belong to but one church. ... "The U.S. government and most state governments, and many local governments open their sessions with prayer, commonly a prayer specific to one religion" (internet) how the government and church be separate if this is everyday life. ... So if anyone could create a great government with political, cultural and economic greatness than Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton are the people I would what to set the groundwork for this governmen...

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