How where ideas from enlightenment philosophers like john locke significant to the forming of u. s government?

he was a English philosopher and physician. The French Enlightenment drew heavily on his ideas, as did the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution. He was one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and also known as the "Father of Liberalism". He was considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory.  

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equal pay act of 1963. the equal pay act, signed in to law by president john f. kennedy on june 10, 1963, was one of the first federal anti-discrimination laws that addressed wage differences based on gender. they felt that this would prevent employers from undercutting future wages for men.