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Please answer both questions

1. How were the founding fathers influenced
by the idea of Natural Law and Natural
Rights?
2. Which of the ideas listed below do you
consider most important and why?
a. Magna Carta
b. The Enlightenment
c. The Mayflower Compact

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Answer: 1. John Locke presented the idea of natural rights, which are provided by natural law. ... Locke had another idea that influenced the Founding Fathers though, and this is the concept of the social contract. Locke argued that a contract should exist between the government and the people, and he called this the social contract.

2. c

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1. These ideas are the key parts of America and the American constitution and conserve the power of the people which is why the founding fathers decided to secure these rights forever

2.b
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