What features of colonial politics contributed to the development of popular democracy?

Answer 1

America was founded in the Enlightenment Age giving its ideals a very progressive way of thinking.

It was not so much as the political ways of colonial America that gave rise to a democratic republic, because that is truly what America is, but the age in which her founding father's were educated in. when George, Thomas, and John were attaining their degrees of higher education the likes of john Locke were being published on a wide spread basis. These books were read and re read and were tested on by students wanting to become lawyers or politicians in the 17th and 18th centuries. Enlightenment Age philosophers were the first to have their works published widespread and accessible to the masses, the majority of the population whom they strictly addressed in their books. This meant that the young minds of who would become our founding fathers were forever engraved with the beliefs of John Locke.

Their idealistic beliefs of natural rights of every man instilled by such men like Locke enpowered them overthrow the oppressive rule of a monarchy and have a government "of the people, by the people and for the people".