The founders of the country were generally well educated in the classics. Elements of the Magna Carta and the Period of Enlightenment were influencial. The Virginia Plan for a bicameral congress came from writings of philosophy of john Locke to rely on consent of the governed, Charles-Louis de Secondat (Baron Montesquieu) for divided government, and Edward Coke on civil liberties. The New Jersey Plan emphasized states rights and sovereignty.
The foundation was the Enlightenment thinkers, but the constitution is/was a document that was hammered out with compromises and agreements.
The foundation was the Enlightenment thinkers, but the constitution is/was a document that was hammered out with compromises and agreements.
He gave many ideas on how to have a good government, through his books he wrote during exile. When he gave the ideas the founders put them together with other brilliant theories and they came up with what we have today.
The founders of the country were generally well educated in the classics. Elements of the Magna Carta and the Period of Enlightenment were influencial. The Virginia Plan for a bicameral congress came from writings of philosophy of john Locke to rely on consent of the governed, Charles-Louis de Secondat (Baron Montesquieu) for divided government, and Edward Coke on civil liberties. The New Jersey Plan emphasized states rights and sovereignty.
With the United States "republic" as the exemplar for modern democracies, a variety of ideas can be identified that gave birth to it. Fundamentally, the American Founders drew from the Roman ideas of representative government with political offices being limited by terms appropriate to their function and the rank of their holder. The Founders drew also from such Greek ideas as direct participation by citizens in their governance and accountability to the citizen-body for all public-office holders.
The founders of the country were generally well educated in the classics. Elements of the Magna Carta and the Period of Enlightenment were influencial. The Virginia Plan for a bicameral congress came from writings of philosophy of John Locke to rely on consent of the governed, Charles-Louis de Secondat (Baron Montesquieu) for divided government, and Edward Coke on civil liberties. The New Jersey Plan emphasized states rights and sovereignty.
he stated when he was in the third grade with his girlfriend and his mom gave him all his ideas.
The founders of the country were generally well educated in the classics. Elements of the Magna Carta and the Period of Enlightenment were influencial. The Virginia Plan for a bicameral congress came from writings of philosophy of john Locke to rely on consent of the governed, Charles-Louis de Secondat (Baron Montesquieu) for divided government, and Edward Coke on civil liberties. The New Jersey Plan emphasized states rights and sovereignty.
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He gave many ideas on how to have a good government, through his books he wrote during exile. When he gave the ideas the founders put them together with other brilliant theories and they came up with what we have today.
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