Compare Enlightenment thinkers John Lock and Baron de Montesquieu, which
statement below best reflects these two thinkers' influence on the United States,
Locke and Montesquieu did not influence the United States at all.
Jefferson quoted Montesquieu when he wrote the Declaration of
Independence, and Locke's ideas were used to incite revolution against King
George.
Locke's Two Treatises of Government was adopted my American leaders and
added to the Constitution, but Montesquieu's ideas were considered
preposterous.
Locke's ideas of life, liberty and property influenced Thomas Jefferson when
he wrote the Declaration of Independence, while Montesquieu's ideas of
separation of powers was included in the U. S. Constitution.