John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

John Locke was a English Philosopher. He influenced Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the U.S constitution. John Locke approved of Modern Democracy. John Locke was also a great Enlightenment thinker to modern day people. John Locke was the first philosopher to define the self through a "continuity of consciousness". Locke maintained that people are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived by sense perception.