John Locke advocated the three natural rights of man, which influenced many of the Enlightenment's changes and revolution. ... Locke made the three natural rights that state that everyone is able to have life, Liberty and the right to own property. Locke also stated that if the Government did not protect these rights, that the citizens had the right to overthrow it or remove it from being in office. ... There were many great thinkers of the Enlightenment, such as John Locke, Galileo, Voltaire, J.J. ...

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Washington lived only two years after turning over the presidency to his successor, John Adams. ... John wrote propagandas and articles against Britain, though remained anonymous under a pen name. ... After the war John Adams became vice-president under George Washington for two terms. ... Jefferson was largely influenced by Enlightenment writings and was a firm believer in Locke's theory. ... After John Adams Jefferson became the United States third president. ...

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Joseph Mallonee FRE Essay #2 Dr. Reeves AP U.S. History The American Revolution represented a radical alteration in American political ideas and institutions. American thinkers and political leaders came up with new ideas about what democracy should look like. They also created new institution...

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How did the Enlightenment change basic Western attitudes toward reform, faith, and reason? What were the major formative influences on the philosophes? How important was Voltaire in the success of the Enlightenment? The Enlightenment altered the basic attitudes of the Western culture toward...

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The merits of the Montesquieu did not turn up until The Federalist; and although a perverse argument could be made that Madison's ideal was truly in the tradition of John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, the Locke whom the American rebels treated as an honorary president was a pluralistic defender of vested rights, not of parliamentary supremacy. ...

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The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, as they were known, used the ideas of John Locke to argue that the federal government had been formed by a contract among the states and possessed only certain delegated powers. ...

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