THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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Public office should be held by those with talent and not by those with money.
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Equal rights for all meant equal rights for men and women according to natural law.
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A monarchy based on enlightened absolutism was the most sound basis for a government.
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The financial privileges of the wealthy should be redistributed among other members of society.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The eighteenth century was marked by the emergence of new ideas and philosophies that underpinned the ideals of the French Revolution: religion, superstition and irrational beliefs were being replaced by science, reason and new theories about the rights of man.
Detailed explanation-2: -Social Contract. The social contract theory made its way into both the American and French Revolutions. In both revolutions, the social contract theory gave the people reason to overthrow their monarchs.
Detailed explanation-3: -The National Assembly in France even used the American Declaration of Independence as a model when drafting the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen in 1789. Much like the American document, the French declaration included Enlightenment principles, such as equal rights and popular sovereignty.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, born in Geneva in 1712, was one of the 18th century’s most important political thinkers. His work focused on the relationship between human society and the individual, and contributed to the ideas that would lead eventually to the French Revolution.