The ideas that drove the colonists to declare Independence from British rule focused on human rights and the relationship of citizens and government and America was inspired by these ideas written by John Locke. The Founding Fathers got influenced by these ideas and used the idea that government has certain duties towards their citizens to view the relationship America had with the British government. This idea helped them to realize the lacking efforts of the British government to fulfil the demands of the colonies and ignited people to revolt rather than only sit back and complain. Inspired by Enlightenment, Thomas Paine published Common Sense in a language that all the colonists would understand in which he explained that equality was a natural condition but the rule of a king was not.