how did locke and hobbes influence a democracy
We began with the claim that the idea of autonomy, understood in its political form as self-government, may be taken to imply democracy. Although Hobbes endorses and defends both intellectual and moral 169 Hobbes on Democracy. Apperley Politics (1999) 19(3) pp. 165Â±171 autonomy, he cannot endorse autonomy as self-government for the straightforward reason that the idea is self-contradictory.
In fact, one passage from the Second Treatise is reproduced verbatim in the Declaration of Independence, the reference to a long train of abuses.. Such was Locke's influence that Thomas Jefferson wrote:  Bacon, Locke and Newton ...