the Enlightnment

In the second paragraph of the U.S Constitution, Thomas Jefferson wrote all people have the right to life, liberty and happiness. these ideas come from John Locke. for example, Locke said people are born with natural right such as the right to own your property, as well as the right to life and liberty. what they both wrote came from the same idea that people are born with these right

this shows that both men believed in democracy was the form of government because the people choose the government