governments should be based on the consent of the people.
The Enlightenment Era, an intellectual movement based on reason, was the most influence to the American Revolution uproar. The Enlightenment thinker John Locke was by far the most efficacious in providing the Americans, who were still under the control of Great Britain this time, an insight of their own rights. Every person is supposedly born with the natural rights of life liberty and property. Locke said that if the government didn't protect the people's natural rights, then those people had the right to rebel. The Americans decided to rebel against the British, and thus caused the Revolution
Alain Locke
limited government
Britain contributed the colonists and their way of life, leading to the formation of the United States. English philosophers such as John Locke provided the colonists with the idea of natural rights, that all men are born with the right to life, liberty, and to own property.
john locke
governments should be based on the consent of the people.
John Locke
natural rights (john locke)
John Locke's idea of everyone is equal.
John Locke
John Locke
john Locke's idea of natural rights (life, liberty, and land) and his belief that all men are created equal are the two most significant ideas that he contributed to the enlightenment.
John Locke's idea of natural rights (life, liberty, and land) and his belief that all men are created equal are the two most significant ideas that he contributed to the enlightenment.
John Locke
Consent of the governed, spread by john Locke
The Enlightenment was the literary and philosophical movement in Europe that greatly influenced the Declaration of Independence. The idea of the consent of the governed, for example, was drawn from philosophers of the movement.
John Locke