Technically, yes, it is true that the development of the middle class signaled a decline in the importance of nobility, since people were able to have more economic freedom.
In the postwar period, disillusionment influenced the work of many artists and writers, prompting them to question and examine "<span>war’s inevitability" among other things. </span>
As question is raised in a U.S. history class....The Founders were very influenced by Locke's "Two Treatises of Government," written about 120 years before Jefferson wrote the "Declaration." Hobbes' work was also written in the 17th century, and is likewise of interest.
<span>And then there's the 19th century, of American thinkers, such as Emerson, William James, and Charles Peirce (pronounced "purse"). </span>
<span>Then, there's the 18th century, but if influences are calibrated, Locke in the 17th, and Emerson and James in the 19th</span>
