Jean-Jacques Rousseau gave Jefferson the idea that a "well regulated militia as essential to liberty" and Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (known simply as "Montesquieu"), gave the Founding Fathers the concept of "the separation of powers" found in the US Constitution.
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Jefferson gave a philosophy of government by John Locke for the Declaration of Independence. It wasn't reasons, but established a type of thinking.
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The authors of the Declaration of Independence argued against taxation without representation and for religious freedom.
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The major philosopher who had the greatest influence on Augustine was Plotinus, who was a neo-Platonic thinker. Augustine's chief problem was to make the doctrines of Christianity internally coherent. His attempt to do that relied more heavily on Plotinus than on anyone else (except the authors of the New Testament such as Paul). .
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His schooling. Schools at that time spent a lot of time teaching Latin and studying texts written by such authors as Ovid, Terence, Plautus, Seneca, and Plutarch. All of these authors strongly influenced Shakespeare.
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Hitler was known to have been influenced by the works of English author Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who wrote about the purported superiority of the Aryan race. American authors like Henry Ford, whose anti-Semitic views were reflected in his writings, also influenced Hitler through their xenophobic and nationalistic ideologies.
Richard Matheson (I Am Legend, Hell House) influenced him most as a writer. The absence of his father as a child has also influenced his work, it's very evident if you read most of his novels. His characters are presumably a reflection of himself (like most authors), but his past of alcoholism and drug abuse has influenced him to lay everything out on the table. It's not a preferred route to travel as a writer, but that's the way King got through his troubles, by putting it on paper.
John Hancock was one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence. His signature appears very large because he was very proud.