The Age of Reason was a time of when inquiring minds of great thinkers wanted to understand the natural world and humankind based on reason and evidence. The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual thought in the colonies influenced by the European Enlightenment. It applied scientific premise to science, politics, and religion; the Enlightenment was expressed through literature and art, yet reflected through philosophy. This ideology, along with the events of the American Revolution and influences from the members of the American Enlightenment, appears extensively in the founding documents of the United States of America. Perhaps the most notable philosopher and one of the pioneers of modern thinking, John Locke, made tremendous
