John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau focused on addressing contemporary social and political abuses that were occurring. These philosophers questioned public institutions, the church, the law, the principles of government, then decided to recommend specific improvements. John Locke was known as the co-founder of the Enlightenment period along with Isaac Newton. Together, Locke and Newton restored science and philosophy to produce a different way of looking at the world that gave rise to a new political weapon called “public opinion.” Locke used his writings to justify constitutional monarchy. (Wallech, 462) On the other hand, Rousseau focused on the less logical aspects of the human person by examining how nature has instilled ethics in humanity. Rousseau proudly believed that all laws should guarantee freedom and equality to all citizens. He is known for the infamous writing “Social Contract” whose foundation is based on “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains”. In this quote he states that a man is free in the natural state, but when it comes to society he is a slave. Thomas Jefferson looked to Rousseau for ways to manage things in society just as he looked to Locke. Jefferson decided to take Rousseau's words and apply them to the Declaration of Independence in the quote “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. “Thomas Jefferson looked to Rousseau's “Social Contract” for justification for addressing colonial claims in the Declaration of Independence. Rousseau, for example, decided to state “. “As soon as we disobey with impunity, disobedience becomes legitimate. And, since the Most Powerful is always right, all we have to do is take possession of the Power." In this previous quote, Rousseau means that people higher than citizens are never wrong, but if people are wrong then punishment comes. Jefferson takes this statement and turns it into “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, proves a The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was a document rewritten by the National Assembly adapted to the principles of French Evolution. The document included Rousseau's concept that the state should represent the general will of the people as a whole. “Law is the expression of the general will. Every citizen has the right to participate personally, or through his representative, in its foundation... they are equally eligible for all dignities and all public offices and occupations, according to their abilities, and without distinction other than that of their virtues and