How did Enlightenment Thinkers influence the United States Government?

the enlightenement thinkers had ideas that looked great to the American revolutionists. Ideas such as all men are equal and that everyone has a right to live a good life and that everyone was free. At the time of revolution, it was what every American wanted. One of the reasons for the civil war and what many people died to protect. Still today, the US moral and government codes are based on the Englightnemnt ideas that started in Europe