How did john locke impact the world today

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How did john locke influence the constitution

Open to students aged Make the most immediate impact through a gift to BRI today to promote freedom and opportunity for students and teachers across America. We seek an America where we more perfectly realize the promise of liberty and equality expressed in the Declaration of Independence. This calls for civic education that helps students examine the story of our country and exercise the skills of citizenship.

When [the colonies were] forced … to resort to arms for redress, an appeal to the tribunal of the world was deemed proper for our justification.

How did rousseau influence the declaration of independence

Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, May 8, In articulate and memorable phrases, The Declaration in its famous first paragraph asserted the principle of the natural equality of all men.

Then it listed grievance after grievance against the King and by implication the British Parliament. The document is, in another important sense, a petition. Most of all, the Declaration reveals the influence of English philosopher John Locke. Because all men were equal, each would have an equal right to govern, and confusion or anarchy would result.

Then in order to have a government, a majority of individuals would have to consent to a government that would rule over all, instead of each person governing for himself. In this consent, each person exchanges his natural right to govern for a civil right to live under constitutional government. Why would anyone make this exchange?