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In fact , the colonists did not necessarily wish to break with Britain
they simply wanted the rights they were entitled to as British subjects ,
which they believed they were being denied . However , there was a
philosophy that had been around for well over a century . The basis of
modern democracy actually originated in the writings of Thomas Hobbes ,
who wrote of the ``social contract ' and more importantly John Locke .
Around 1680 , he had written that government of a people has...
