3. Compare Enlightenment thinkers John Lock and Baron de Montesquieu, which statement below best reflects these two thinkers' influence on the United States. A. Locke's Two Treatises of Government was adopted my American leaders and added to the Constitution, but Montesquieu's ideas were considered preposterous. B. Locke's ideas of life, liberty and property influenced Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, while Montesquieu's ideas of separation of powers was included in the U. S. Constitution.
C. Jefferson quoted Montesquieu when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, and Locke's ideas were used to incite revolution against King George.​