Part one of term paper
The ideas that form the basis of the American governmental tradition have come from a number of different sources including Voltaire, John Locke, and Montesquieu. John Locke, was from England. He believed in the Natural Rights of Life, Liberty and Property for the people. Locke’s idea’s of Natural Rights was adapted into the U.S. Politi ...

Part two of term paper
... Locke’s idea’s of Natural Rights, true for the USA John Locke also has ideas of Social Contract, how the government power comes from the people. This idea of the Social Contract is explained in the Declaration of Independence ( The document, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the Colonies’ independence from Britain ), and it was adapted into the political structure. It says that “ It is there right, it is there duty, to throw ...