During the Glorious Revolution, tensions drew in America over the crowning of King James II. ... (American Enlightenment [1], 2) Other political ideas reached America, such as John Locke's publications on contractual government and the divine right of kings. ... Descartes" theories were opposed, however, by British philosophers of the empiricist tradition, such as John Locke, who believed that all ideas are derived from the senses. ... As John Locke wrote in The Reasonableness of Christianity:In this state of darkness and ignorance of the true God, vice and superstition held the world; no...

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