Though after many people landed in the New World, many of the colonies established were established under royal charters. These charters would impose political, religious, and social influences on the colonies from England. Soon the English would establish thirteen major colonies. These colonies
The American Enlightenment In the 17th and 18th century, European communication, science, philosophy and politics were changed significantly during the Age of Reason. The philosophers in countries such as Great Britain and France criticized the traditional authority and adopted the idea that humanity was enhanced via rational thinking (Schmidt, 31). The Enlightenment generated many scholarly works such as scientific discoveries, books, essays, laws, and revolutions (Hanley and McMahon, p. 2). In
“inequality and private power shape the social order,” Classical liberalism arose along with the Enlightenment movement of the late 17th and the 18th centuries which proclaimed reason as the foundation of individual freedom. Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke (1632–1704) argued that in the ‘state of nature’, all men were free and equal, therefore possessing inalienable rights independent of the laws of any government or authority. Naturally endowed with the right to life, liberty, and property, humans