Montesquieu and Locke were both significant individuals in the development of representative government in the colonies because —

Explanation:

They are modern philosophers. The time period we are talking about is when God stopped being the main problem of mankind. The mankind itself became the real deal. No more theocentrism, now we think about we, the humans that we are, the economic issues that troubles the poor members of society, the searching for the answers that God and the church didn't shared to us. These philosophers began to create methods of studying and criticize the knowledge, mainly in political matters.

deists, human beings can know god only via reason and the observation of nature, but not by revelation or by supernatural manifestations

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