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john Locke was a great influence on many of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison included.
Locke identified the basis of a legitimate government whereby a ruler gains authority through the consent of the governed. The duty of that government is to protect the natural rights of the people, which Locke believed to include life, liberty, and property. If the government should fail to protect these rights, its citizens would have the right to overthrow that government. Thomas Jefferson was influenced by Locke's idea as he wrote the US Declaration of Independence.
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What influence did John Locke's Second Treatise have on the US Constitution?
Locke believed that political society was created to protect individual rights.
How did Thomas Hobbes and john Locke's ideas have an impact on the us constitution and bill of rights?
no, but he did influence the declaration of independence
Name 4 political theorists that influence the US founders and basic principles of the Constitution?
Thomas Hobbes John Locke
The system checks and balances in the US constitution was influenced by the ideas of which enlightenment thinker?
John Locke
Who influenced the US Constitution?
john Locke was the major influence on the founding fathers of the enlightenment.if you need more info, shoot me an e-mail.=D
Enlightenment thinker had the most influence on the government of the US?
john Locke
The idea of checks and balances adopted into the US Constitution was developed by?
John locke
Which idea expressed in the us constitution was influenced by the declaration of independence?
john locke
How did john Locke influence the founding fathers?
John Locke was political philosopher and a proponent of natural law, and limited government. These two ideas that greatly influenced the Founding Fathers. Locke's ideas are reflected in both the Declaration of Independence, and the US Constitution.
How did John Locke do?
He influenced us during the Enlightenment and was part of the constitution of the United States of America.
It can be assumed that John Locke agreed with what principle of the US democracy system?
I think you have it backwards, but that the United States democracy is based on the philosophy of Locke so the constitution agreed with Locke.
What philosopher ideas played a major part of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independece?
John Locke, from the Enlightenment.
