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Declaration of Independence and Rights

Declaration of Independence and Rights
Brace Thompson
002/10/003
The Declaration of Independence and The Declaration of the Rights of Man were both influential and understandable to the New England society. The Enlightenment started the ideas written down in these documents, beginning in the 1600’s. The Enlightenment was caused by the ideas of many men in the Scientific Revolution. Thinking logically was the key to a new way of life. There were so many men who first influenced this change of thinking, and of interpreting society: Bacon, Descartes, and Copernicus were a few of the many to contribute. John Locke was the most influential on the Enlightenment by bringing the ideas that people were born with a clean slate, and that people had the right to life, liberty and property. Locke and others were the start of the change in everybody’s life in America and should be recognized, not just Thomas Jefferson.
The philosophes of the Enlightenment were made up of men...

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