Absolutely correct, but I would argue that the most significant influence on the Founders was that of the French Revolution. However, we’ve been assholes to left-handed people for a loooooooong time so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://twitter.com/Schottey/status/1088984197820223490 …
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And let me clarify that, since what we consider the French Revolution actually happened after the American Revolution - the ideas from French philosophers and thinkers, as well as material support during the war, is what shaped American ideas of government.
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The Enlightenment. We had the great Thomas Paine's Common Sense. ""Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain""
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Wrote "The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason" after. He was the man. "It follows in the tradition of eighteenth-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine …
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Oh Paine was an absolute badass, I completely agree
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