Agreed! Towards that end I would recommend the recently published book _America's Revolutionary Mind_. It provides a comprehensive (and sometimes exhausting!)

Agreed! Towards that end I would recommend the recently published book _America's Revolutionary Mind_. It provides a comprehensive (and sometimes exhausting!) overview of the influence of Locke and other enlightenment thinkers on the evolving mindset of the pre-Revolutionary war era. It's not just a review of well known names - but shows just how much Locke's ideas really reached a large range of the then every day royal subjects of the crown in the colonies. Even with that - its still amazing we got something as good as the Constitution. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44807363-america-s-revolutionary-mind https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44807363-america-s-re...