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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John Locke, an English philosopher from the Enlightenment era, stated that all citizens were entitled at birth to life, liberty and property. Locke also stated that if the government revoked any of these natural rights at any point it was the peoples" duty to rebel, it was unjust cruelty. ...

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The British now targeted the two people that had begun the revolution, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. ... While John Hancock, who was a smuggler in Boston represented the rich, who opposed the British because of the annoying taxation. ... It followed the natural rights tenets of the British philosopher John Locke, whose writings had justified independence as the will of the people and revolution as a device for bringing happiness. ...

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Liberty is a word that produces a strong feeling of hope and touches the inner soul of man. Throughout the course of time, individuals and nations oppressed by the tyrannical government have cried out of for liberty and have sought for the comfort of living a free life. Revolution and wars have of...

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