Essays on Declaration of Independence

John Locke was an Oxford trained physician born in 1632. He is noted as one of the most significant thinkers of the Enlightenment era. In 1667, Locke moved into Lord Shaftesbury’s home in London to serve as a private physician. Shaftesbury, who is thought to...

The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights are two of the most important and influential documents in the history of the United States of America while similarities are consistent in the two documents, there are differences as well. These documents, specifically, the Declaration...

-The American Revolution was not caused by poverty or class struggle, unlike in the French Revolution, and was comparatively limited in its violence. But it was no less radical. It was not the conservative, bourgeois rebellion in defense of the status quo that many historians...