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The mountains impede trade because they are too high and vast to easily transport
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The ideas of the Enlightenment influenced American colonists like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson because they read the works of Enlightenment thinkers and adopted similar views on politics and society. Political philosophers of the Enlightenment believed that using reason will guide us to the best ways to operate in order to create the most beneficial conditions for society. This included a conviction that all human beings have certain natural rights which are to be protected and preserved. The Enlightenment ideal was that individual freedom and equal rights and opportunity for all would be promoted and protected. Each individual's well-being (life, health, liberty, possessions) should be served by the way government and society are arranged. The American founding fathers accepted these Enlightenment views and acted on them.
Further detail / example:
John Locke, in his Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690), had expressed the idea of natural rights in the words that follow. Notice the similarities to what was later stated in the American colonists' <em>Declaration of Independence</em> (1776).
- <em>The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions… (and) when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another.</em>
John Steinbeck's the Pearl takes place in La Paz, Mexico.
Steinbeck was inspired to write the story after hearing a folk talk while visiting Baja (where La Paz is located) which is a heavy pearl producing region.
The correct answer is "To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men."
John Locke believed that the government's aim was to help all people achieve equality of natural rights, and that the government is obliged to protect and defend its citizens.
Locke rejected the belief that some people were born to rule divinely over others simply because they belonged to a higher class. Locke firmly believed that even a monarchy should reign only with the consent of the people. His radical beliefs at the time made him a target for British monarchs who believed that average citizens should stay in their place and outside government activities.
