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Thomas Hobbes
https://iep.utm.edu/hobmoral/ Answer: Personally, I can think of a few they both might agree on. One obvious one is the concept of limited government and rights that you can keep forever. But as for the ideas they disagreed with? I’d probably say that the idea of the government having supreme power over its citizens didn’t really sound appealing to the Founding Fathers all that much -
John Locke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke If the government happens to become too big for it own good, there are many things the people can do to calm it down, such as staging a revolt. The citizens may only have a right to it after they have suffered enough abuse. It’s always has to a justified revolt in some sort of way. Many of the Founding Fathers have transferred this teaching in the modern American way. -
Baron de Montesquieu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu The executive branch is the president. The legislative branch makes and passes the laws. Then, the Judicial is basically a check on both powers to make sure both of them don’t go out of control. The government follows this rule to this day. -
William Blackstone
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1286/william-blackstone He said: “It is truly observed by the commentator that the absolute rights of individuals though occupying less space in codes of law than their relative rights or rights of property, are nevertheless by far the most important.“ In other words, he thinks the rights of individuals are the most important law of all. This will come to impact the constitution. There’s also a possibility that FoS was taken from him to an extent..