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Write a 4 page essay on the impact John Locke and Age of Enlightenment thinkers had on American culture and philosophy? Did they inspire the American Revolution? How?

Instructions: This essay must have an introduction, body and conclusion. Please cite your information by using footnotes. This should be written as an essay, 12 font, doubled-spaced, please source your material with footnotes. (Please don’t just answer the questions, this is an essay.)

Analyze the ideas behind America’s founding documents be reading the declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. (These documents are at the back of your textbook or you can find them on the internet.)

Identify the ideas of various Enlightenment thinkers who influenced America’s founders.

Describe the philosophical positions of John Locke.

Analyze the idea of a social contract, as well as the idea of the principle of individuation.

How did this harken back to the Glorious Revolution that occurred a year before Locke's Two Treatises of Government was published?

What did John Lock propose in the Chapter Of State of Nature?

What was John Locke's and the American founding founder's (Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, etc.) view on Government, Republicanism and Country Ideology?

Are we as American Citizens and Resident Aliens really free in the United States? 

Do you think we are born free? Why?

Are some rights earned and some granted? Why or why not?

Does the ideas exposed in the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution relate to John Locke and other Age of Enlightenment thinkers?

What were as the advantages and disadvantages of declaring independence from Britain?

What role did African Americans play in the American Revolution?

What impact did the philosophies of John Locke and the Enlightenment thinkers have on enslaved Africans?