John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau focused on combating contemporary social and political abuses that were occurring. These philosophers questioned public institutions, the Church, the law, the principles of government, which is why they decided to advise specific improvements. John Locke was known as the co-founder of the Enlightenment period with Isaac Newton. Together, Locke and Newton restored science and philosophy to produce a different way of seeing the world, which 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 parts of the human person by examining how nature instilled humanity with ethics. Rousseau was proud to believe that all laws must guarantee freedom and equality to all citizens. He is known for his famous writing “Social Contract” the basis of which is based on “Man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains”. In this quote he states that a man is free in a natural state, but as far as society is concerned, he is enslaved. Thomas Jefferson looked to Rousseau for ways to manage things in society, just as he looked to Locke. Jefferson decided to take these words from Rousseau 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 observed Rousseau's “Social Contract” to justify his response to colonial demands in the Declaration of Independence. For example, Rousseau decided to say “. “As soon as we disobey without impunity, disobedience becomes legitimate. And since the Most Powerful is always right, all we have to do is acquire Power. In this previous quote, Rousseau means that people superior to citizens are never wrong, but if people are wrong, then punishment follows. Jefferson takes this statement and transforms it into “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, demonstrates a reality. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was a document drawn up by the National Assembly and 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. “The law is the expression of the general will. Every citizen has the right to participate personally, or through his representative, in its foundation... are also eligible for all dignities and all public offices and occupations, according to their abilities, and without distinction except that of their virtues and