John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

The enlightenment thinkers were the first people who gathered together and decided to think of a better way of government instead of a monarchy. John locke was the one who influenced most thomas jefferson. The rights that Thomas Jefferson talks about is Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Which mean people have the right to do what without someone judging them. The power of the government comes from the people. This was made because people only were ruled by a king and only passes their crown down to their sons, and sometimes their sons weren't the best ones and failed to control a country. So thomas took the enlightenment thinkers ideas and changed them a little to form a democracy. So this way people would vote for their governments and if they saw the government was doing a bad job the people had the power to overthrow the government and replace them.