The founding of our Government, its purpose is to establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity. In order to achieve the purpose the Founding Fathers; establish three main principles on which our Government is based: Inherent rights, Self-government, and Separation of Powers. Also, the proper role of government in providing for its people general Welfare is still alive and well today. Government is necessary to ensure the proper use of force. For this reason it must specify objective laws to clarify the use of force, and it must have the ability to enforce these laws. And protect …show more content…
As part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment. John Locke contribute to the development of our Government is to protect the Natural rights of the people. Which John believed to include & life, liberty, and property. Thomas Hobbes, wanted the Philosopher to influence the Founding Fathers and the first Principles. Instead of the Founding Fathers to embraced Locke Ideas. To protect Natural rights of people, and to limited Government in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Niccolo Machiavelli contribute to the development to our Government has complete authority and the people must accept whatever the Government does without any repercussions from us, the people. Baron de Montesquieu contribute to the development to our Government by Drafting the Constitution, or the Separation of Powers. In conclusion, this is how four men help to contribute the development of our Government. Finally, The Enlightenment sometimes called the Age of Enlightenment, was a late 17th and 18th century. Enlightenment thinkers were the liberals of their day. They were typically humanists who supported equality and human …show more content…
On September 16, 1620 the Mayflower, a British ship, with 102 passengers, who called themselves Pilgrims, aboard sailed from Plymouth, England. The significance of the Mayflower is to illustrated as it was the first democratic Government to be establish in the colonies. The colonists agreed to choose leaders and make their own laws in which they agreed to follow them. Also, the Mayflower Compact bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws. The Mayflower was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Congregationalists who called themselves Saints and adventurers and tradesmen, most of whom were referred to by the Separatists as