Thomas Paine's novels and pamphlets and Thomas Jefferson's role in writing the Declaration of Independence had a significant importance in the origins of the American government.
Numerous novels and pamphlets by Thomas Paine (1737–1809) made significant contributions to "delegitimising" the British state's claims to authority. In contrast to Paine's assertion that "society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one," the reader is pointed to the Bible's discussion of the nature of rulers.
In writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) claimed to have "gone to neither book nor pamphlet in formulating it," instead attempting to "bring before people the common sense of the subject." The extent to which libertarian views, such as those put out by John Locke in the previous century, have permeated common American thinking on politics and morality is amply demonstrated by this. It is interesting how frequently the Declaration of Independence quotes passages from Locke's Second Treatise on Government.
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