John Locke And The American Enlightenment
How did the ideas of John Locke influence the American Enlightenment?
AAmericans adopted his ideas after observing how his treatises successfully dismantled the British monarchy.
BHis authorship of Common Sense utilized plain English to make revolutionary concepts more accessible to the public.
CHis rejection of the divine right of kings and his advocacy for government by the consent of the governed became foundational to American revolutionary thought.
DBecause most colonists were of English descent, they were more receptive to Locke's philosophies than to those of French thinkers such as Rousseau.