john Locke was a huge influence on all of Thomas Jefferson's philosophical thoughts and ideals. If you research anything on Locke, you can see where many of Jefferson's ideas and such came from.
For example, Jefferson paraphrases Locke's ideas in the Declaration of Independence, changing "life, liberty, and property" to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" is very significant.
His two treatises on govt/classical liberalism provided the foundation for Jeffersons declaration of independence and masons declaration of rights. Jefferson wrote that every man has a set of inalienable rights - life liberty and the pursuit of happiness - Locke wrote that govts fundamental purpose was to protect every mans right to life liberty and estate (clear similarity). Mason used lockean terms to define happiness as the right to property which could explain Jefferson switch of 'pursuit of happiness' and 'estate'. There is far more evidence connecting Locke with Jefferson - look at Becker 'The Declaration of Independence' for a more detailed explanation of the political philosophy/importance of liberalism. its an old book but the theories put forward have resisted recent criticism (Garry Wills - Inventing America)
classic yanks and their ideals....nothing wrong with a bit of monarchy
in what way did John Locke influence Thomas Jefferson?
The Two Treatises of Government and he believed in life, liberty, and property
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We do not have your list of people, but Jefferson was influenced by Locke. He used his philosophy in the Declaration.
Thomas Jefferson and those who drafted the Declaration of Independence as well as the Constitution. The American Founding Fathers essentially.
because he was like really really smart and like belived in like natural rights and he was like smart and Jefferson like took his ideals and was influenced deeply from them and stuff
it helped him write the declaration of independance
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Alot of his ideals were used by Thomas Jefferson when drafting our declaration of indendence.
John Locke was known to influence Thomas Jefferson while he was writing the Declaration of Independenc. He rewrote John Lockes qoute "life liberty and property" to be "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
well locke believed that people were good and they are!
yes it did. it ensure lockes philosophy on inalienable rights. that idea influenced the founders from the beginning and it was given to its citizens
John Locke's social contract theory posits that individuals enter into a social contract with a government to protect their natural rights to life, liberty, and property. According to Locke, if a government fails to uphold its end of the contract by violating these rights, individuals have the right to revolt and establish a new government. This theory influenced the development of modern democratic governance.
John Locke changed and influenced the world in many ways. His political ideas like those in the Two Treatises of Government, (such as civil, natural, and property rights and the job of the government to protect these rights), were put into the United States Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution. His ideas about life, liberty, and property however were slightly altered to life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. John Lockes ideas and teachings of rights greatly influenced the Englightenment and Enlightenment thinkers.Locke's ideas of the separation of the governments powers into legislative, executive, and federative were more fully developed by the French writer Montesquieu. Montesquieu however changed them into legislative, executive, and judicial. These were then put into the American Constitutions framing process. Also, Thomas Jefferson, one of the main writters of the American Declaration of Independence said Locke was one of "the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception". Locke's view's greatly influenced Thomas Jefferson's political outlook, therefore he technically helped write the Declaration of Independence. John Locke and his ideas on education influenced modern history and even school systems today because of his teachings.http://sites.google.com/site/lockevshobbeswhowillwin/home/who-was-john-locke/john-lockes-ideas