The federal system was the most important to the founding fathers
An oligarchy can include representative democracy because in some countries people can vote in them.
The quote that most strongly show Locke's influence on those who drafted the Declaration of Independence:
"<span>Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
Locke (along with Hobbes and Rousseau) was a proponent of a social contract, for he believed that we would gain more than what we would sacrifice if we were to enter a social contract and form a society.</span>
It was the system that caused death among people all around
