THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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there was not a common theme among the enlightenment thinkers
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faith in traditional religious beliefs.
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a belief in the inherent goodness of humanity.
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support for democratic forms of government.
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Detailed explanation-1: -They held that society existed as a contract between individuals and some larger political entity. They advanced the idea of freedom and equality before the law. Enlightenment ideas about how governments should be organized and function influenced both the American and French Revolutions.
Detailed explanation-2: -Montesquieu wrote that the main purpose of government is to maintain law and order, political liberty, and the property of the individual.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although distinctive features arose in the eighteenth-century American context, much of the American Enlightenment was continuous with parallel experiences in British and French society. Four themes recur in both European and American Enlightenment texts: modernization, skepticism, reason and liberty.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rousseau argued that the general will of the people could not be decided by elected representatives. He believed in a direct democracy in which everyone voted to express the general will and to make the laws of the land. Rousseau had in mind a democracy on a small scale, a city-state like his native Geneva.