How Did John Locke Influence American Government

The Enlightenment was a European movement where people questioned the rule of kings and religious doctrines. John Locke was a British Enlightenment philosopher, he had a very big impact on the American Revolution and the colonists belief in self-government. John Locke believed that people had natural rights when they were born. He said that when someone was born they were free, equal, and had natural rights of life, liberty, and property and that rulers couldn’t take it away. John Locke’s ideas were constitutional and they challenged centuries of thinking, in regard of rulers and the people.
John Locke wrote Two Treatises of Government in 1690. The First Treatise criticises
Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha, which supports the king's rights. Locke