(Bernstein et al, 1997) Locke acknowledges that humans have inherent propensities that monitor our thought, emotion, and bodily processes, but that concepts of religion, politics, math, and science are all impressions that have resulted from experience. ... He was opposed to the "divine right of kings," believing rather in civil and natural law, which stated that all men were born good and equal. ... All of the different approaches being used today trace their roots back to John Locke and his empiricist followers....

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Deep in the minds of the colonists was one small thing that would unite them all, an ingrained love for freedom and equality. ... Your own property meant your own food, and own money and made you "independent from all other men, including kings and lords... "(17) Furthermore there was a another "principle forming the Americans mind that all men are created equal"(76) That declaration meant to the Americans that they should have the same independence as a nation as what others enjoyed and only have to pay taxes they levied therefore on themselves for their own benefit not the benefit of some fa...

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In all parts of the world, celebration, mourning, and hostility occurred all because of religion. ... These men advocated the abolition of the monarchy and establishment of a republic. ... (American Enlightenment [1], 2) Other political ideas reached America, such as John Locke's publications on contractual government and the divine right of kings. ... Such men as these, along with many others, precipitated the evolution of thought into the time known as the Enlightenment. ... Enlightenment men were not, however, merely concerned with self-perfection, but rather perfecting humanity as a w...

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This was based on Locke's belief that all men come into the world as potential equals, and their mind like a blank page to which every impression is impacted. ... The obvious danger of such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculiarly lead by some of the richest men in America such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and George Washington. These rich, privileged men, and future authors of the Declaration of Independence, were confronted with an atmosphere that desperately required the backing of the poor and working-class p...

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