Answer:
Political attitudes and proposals were integral to the spread of Enlightement from Europe to America. Enlightement main authors wrote about them:
"John Locke defended the displacement of a monarch who would not protect the lives, liberties, and property of the English people. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU stated that society should be ruled by the "general will" of the people. BARON DE MONTESQUIEU declared that power should not be concentrated in the hands of any one individual. He recommended separating power among executive, legislative, judicial branches of government. American intellectuals began to absorb these ideas."
Reference: ushistory.org. “The Impact of Enlightenment in Europe.” Ushistory.org, Independence Hall Association