Question

Name one of the big ideas that the founding fathers borrowed from locke

Answer 1

Life, liberty, and property was John Locke's most well-known declarations. Thomas Jefferson changed the idea to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, in his quest to be more original yet still attain genialness. Life was inflicting that everyone deserves the right to live; liberty, insinuating that everyone freedom as long as it doesn't conflict with the first right; and property, declaring that everyone is entitled to own all they create or gain so long as it doesn't conflict with the first two rights.

Answer 2

The term or concept of "unalienable rights" came from the writings of John Locke. This is where the Declaration of Independence states "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". John Locke also wrote about the social compact where government derives its power from the consent and will of the people. So effectively the government is made of the people, rather than being a separate entity that no one is in control of.