This is a read-aloud play to help students understand how Enlightenment thinkers influenced the Founding Fathers. The play is written in the style of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." As Thomas Jefferson wearily tries to pen the Declaration of Independence, he is visited by ghosts in the forms of John Locke, King John of England, the Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Each of the men tell Jefferson about their ideas and ask him to include them in the Declaration and the new governmen