How did ideas from the Enlightenment become part of revolutionary ideology?

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How did ideas from the Enlightenment become part of revolutionary ideology? Under John Locke's theory of the social contract, the present British government was failing to protect the rights and liberties of its citizens in North America. According to Locke, that justified a rebellion.

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in mcculloch v. maryland (1819) the supreme court ruled that congress had implied powers under the necessary and proper clause of article i, section 8 of the constitution to create the second bank of the united states and that the state of maryland lacked the power to tax the bank.

gibbons v. ogden, (1824), was a landmark decision in which the supreme court of the united states held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to congress by the commerce clause of the united states constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.