Which enlightenment writer inspired thomas jefferson to write the constituion?

Question: Which enlightenment writer inspired thomas jefferson to write the constituion!?

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It was John Locke, who wrote _Two Treatises on Government_, and pushed the idea of consent of the governed, that people willingly give over political control to a government, which in turn will protect them and attempt to make their lives better!. If the government does not do that, then it can be replaced!.

also, unfortunately, your question is a little incorrect!. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence!. He actually was NOT in Philadelphia in 1787 to help write the Constitution!. Rest assured, Locke's ideas were popular amongst most of the Founding Fathers and were embedded in the Constitution (especially in the preamble)!.

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Thomas Jefferson did not write the Constitution!. The Constitution was primarily written by James Madison!. Of course, it was then amended by representatives from all the states!. But Monroe presented the original ideas!. He did not originally include the Bill of Rights - Monroe was not in favor of declaring specific rights!. But the other delegates had had enough of England's interference that they felt a Bill of Rights was important!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Thomas Jefferson had nothing whatsoever to do with writing the Constitution!. He was in France when the Philadelphia (Constitutional) Convention met!. If you refer to the Declaration, he didn't write that either!. That was the product of the Committee of Five, of whom Jefferson was but one member!. The other four contributed more than a little!. Their proposed rough draft was then revised by the Second Continental Congress as a whole!.

Since the Congress knew the document had no legal effect whatsoever and was simply a piece of propaganda intended to justify their treason and to elicit support for the cause both at home and abroad, it contained no new political, ideological or philosophical content!. It wasn't intended to and as the committee members freely acknowledged, it did not!. Most of the ideas in the document came from British sources and English law, although the ideas had evolved from Plato and Aristotle through Cicero and Seneca to the Dutch Declaration of Independence to David Hume and John Locke!. If one reads the Carolina Constitutions, which Locke had a major hand in writing, one will readily understand why Locke would not have been in support of the colonial treason!.

In any case, 'independence' was actually 'declared' by means of the Lee Resolution, adopted by the Congress on July 2, 1776!. Rhode Island independently declared independence on May 4, 1776!. Jefferson didn't have anything to do with those pronouncements either!.

Not that it mattered!. Not only was the Declaration meaningless as a matter of law, it didn't do much to generate support either!. The world reacted to it with a resounding yawn (although the Dutch, the first to do so, did recognize colonial independence in 1783, a few months before independence was granted by the British through the Treaty of Paris) and at home, at the height of the movement, only 1/3 of the colonists ever favored independence or the treason of the Congress!. That is why "We the People" never got to vote on it!. It wouldn't have passed!.

As for the Constitution, you might want to check into Gouverneur Morris, James Madison, the Articles of Confederation, the Albany Conference, the Iroquois Confederation and English Law!. There wasn't much new (philosophically) in that document either, although Morris' Preamble was, and is, pretty nice prose!. He and Madison are credited with writing most of the Constitution!. Madison was the Secretary of the Convention and his transcribed notes were used extensively by he and Morris in preparing the draft that the Convention then modified into the final document!. Madison didn't formulate the ideas, he recorded the ideas expressed from the floor!.

The Bill of Rights came later because folks like Ben Franklin wanted to get the job done and to go home!. Nobody agreed in toto with the final version, but all realized that they weren't ever going to and they had come as close as they could!. (Read Franklin's speech in favor of adoption of a less than perfect constitution- the one he wrote didn't give - for more detail!.) It was agreed the the Bill of Rights would be added and state conventions acceded to the constitution only on the condition that those amendments would be coming soon!.

Most of the ideas in the Bill of Rights come from English precedent and English law!. Two of the Amendments, IX and X, stem from jealousy of political power!. The colonies each became separate independent nations in 1783!. They weren't about to give up that independence!. New York, Virginia and Massachusetts expressly said they would not accede to the union unless they could thereafter secede from it!. The other ten states (translated: 'nation states' or 'independent nations') said that that right was an understood given!. Amendments IX and X were the closest language they could get to form a consensus!. Thus were the seeds of the War for CSA Independence sown!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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