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The great thinkers from the Age of Enlightenment were concerned with how people were capable of self government. Self government is not without government and if people are capable of governing themselves, they are certainly capable of forming governments (artifices), to establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense and promote the general Welfare of the self governed. From John Locke, to Adam Smith to Thomas Hobbes and Thomas Paine, the great thinkers of the Enlightenment were concerned with how people would be with government. From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Franklin, from George Washington to John Adams the great thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment were concerned with how governments should be with people.
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Why were the federalist concerned that without a strong national government it would triumph embargoes?
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How did enlightenment influence the government?
the three philosophers Locke, voltair, and montesque influences Franklin, Jefferson, Madison and admas. they made our government. without their ideas we would not have the Bill of Rights, constitution, or Declaration of Independence.
Do you think Government might have purpose that Locke did not mention?
John Locke was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory. his ideas had enormous influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers, classical republicans, and contributors to liberal theory. his writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. this influence is reflected in the American Declaration of Independence. Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin for modern conceptions of identity and "the self", figuring prominently in the later works of philosophers such as David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. Locke was the first philosopher to define the self through a continuity of "consciousness". he also postulated that the mind was a "blank slate" or "tabula rasa"; that is, contrary to Cartesian or Christian philosophy, Locke maintained that people are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived by sense perception.
Who thought no government can exist without the consent of the governed?
John Locke thought no government can exist without the consent of the governed.
Can a government exist without taxes?
no
