Answer: France
Explanation: Louisiana and much of the UA at the time was purchased in what was called the Louisiana Contract by Thomas a Jefferson from a France. I believe the price was 3 million dollars.
People such as John Locke, (who the colonists looked up into his writing), believed that people were born with natural rights, such as life, liberty, and property. The colonists in America believed similar, and got inspiration from what John Locke wrote in a book.
Because one is when if you do something bad then you get killed or serously hurt and the other are just laws that you have to fallow