USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The English colonists in America brought with them three main concepts: The need for an ordered social system, or government. The idea of limited government, that is, that government should not be all-powerful. The concept of representative government-a government that serves the will of the people.

Detailed explanation-2: -The American revolutionary generation drew many of its ideas from the English philosopher John Locke (1632–1704).

Detailed explanation-3: -The duty of that government is to protect the natural rights of the people, which Locke believed to include life, liberty, and property. If the government should fail to protect these rights, its citizens would have the right to overthrow that government.

Detailed explanation-4: -Like the states today, each colony was run by a government headed by a governor and a legislature. The thirteen colonies were under a legislature, the British Parliament, [similar to the present Congress] and a King whose powers were not that different from those granted the American President.