The U.S. Founding Fathers were influenced by many great thinkers and past societies when they collectively wrote the famous documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution that shape our government and country. After events such as the Boston Tea Party, Americans, to put it bluntly, were fed up with Great Britain’s jurisdiction. They desired to form their own government, completely dissimilar to England’s, thus the Founding Fathers essentially sat down and devised an effective government system, and together with the combination of ideas from inspirations such as John Locke and Charles Montesquieu they created a novel U.S. government.
John Locke was a key influence on both the Declaration of Independence (which declared …show more content…
Their government was majorly people-run, meaning commonplace people and aristocrats shared governing power; they didn’t have a king. Citizens gave power to elected representatives under one condition: the foremost goal remained promotion of common welfare of the people, and they were required to place that goal above their own interests. How did this influence the Founding Fathers and philosophers internationally? For Americans, their main goal was to abolish Great Britain’s reign over the U.S. and become an independently-run country, therefore the Roman Republic was an excellent model of a balanced government. As for many philosophers, this was an admirable government model as well. In fact, John Locke’s and Montesquieu’s theories were chiefly inspired by specifically the Romans’ three government branches, executive, legislature and judicial. Despite this seemingly perfect model, the Founding Fathers were also cautious, upon realizing that the Roman Empire had developed from the Roman Republic, so they devised methods of diminishing exceeding powers (i.e. impeachment and vetoing). In doing so, the American government was successfully established through the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and a new America was recognized as
John Locke was a key influence on both the Declaration of Independence (which declared …show more content…
Their government was majorly people-run, meaning commonplace people and aristocrats shared governing power; they didn’t have a king. Citizens gave power to elected representatives under one condition: the foremost goal remained promotion of common welfare of the people, and they were required to place that goal above their own interests. How did this influence the Founding Fathers and philosophers internationally? For Americans, their main goal was to abolish Great Britain’s reign over the U.S. and become an independently-run country, therefore the Roman Republic was an excellent model of a balanced government. As for many philosophers, this was an admirable government model as well. In fact, John Locke’s and Montesquieu’s theories were chiefly inspired by specifically the Romans’ three government branches, executive, legislature and judicial. Despite this seemingly perfect model, the Founding Fathers were also cautious, upon realizing that the Roman Empire had developed from the Roman Republic, so they devised methods of diminishing exceeding powers (i.e. impeachment and vetoing). In doing so, the American government was successfully established through the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and a new America was recognized as