John Locke • Charles-Louis Montesquieu • Thomas Hobbes The people above all influenced the development of the representative government in the United States. They were all philosophers from which time period?

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.