How did the colonial experience and the ideas of James Madison influence the Declaration of independence and the us constitution?

It is because of the Social Contract that John Locke wrote that allowed America to justify breaking away from England. Enlightenment Ideas in the Declaration of Independence: Equality-"All men...

Immanuel Kant

philosophers of the enlightenment

James Madison was our President and did sign the Constitution, but did not sighn the Declaration of Independence, nor attend. that helped alot.:-)

In1787, James Madison, a delegate at the Constitutional Convention, met to improve the Articles of Confederation as it did not give Congress enough power to make states work together. Congress also...