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How did the ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers affect the colonists and the representatives of the new United States of America? Use a topic sentence and details sentences with textual evidence to support your answer.

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Ideals of the enlightenment greatly affected the USA, specifically with its constitution. In the US constitution you find ideas of John Locke and Montesquieu: Locke’s theory of the role of government being to protect the natural rights (life liberty and property) of its people and Montesquieu’s idea of separation of powers (so the US has 3 branches of government).

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