Which three people are considered founding fathers of the united states? jean jacques rousseau john adams thomas jefferson benjamin franklin john locke

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams are the three founding fathers!

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While Rousseau and Locke were not founding fathers of the USA, they were important for their influence on the thinking of America's founding fathers.  According to an article on "Intellectual Influences on the Declaration of Independence" from Southern Methodist University:

In addition to the social contract theory pioneered by thinkers like Locke and Rousseau, America's founding fathers were influenced also by the political writing of Montesquieu, another European Enlightenment philosopher.   The "separation of powers" principle was an idea embedded into the US Constitution by our founding fathers, based on ideas introduced by Charles-Louis de Secondat, the Baron of Montesquieu, in his  important work of political theory called The Spirit of the Laws, published in 1748.