THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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Montesquieu’s theory of the social contract
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Locke’s idea of popular sovereignty
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Voltaire’s idea of an enlightened monarchy
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Hobbes’s idea of the need for a powerful government
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Detailed explanation-1: -The social contract states that “rational people” should believe in organized government, and this ideology highly influenced the writers of the Declaration of Independence. that created it, or popular sovereignty.
Detailed explanation-2: -Often credited as a founder of modern “liberal” thought, Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract, religious toleration, and the right to revolution that proved essential to both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution that followed.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Virginia Declaration of Rights strongly influenced Thomas Jefferson in writing the first part of the Declaration of Independence. It later provided the foundation for the Bill of Rights.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jefferson modeled the most famous ideas in the Declaration of Independence on those of John Locke. Locke was an English writer. He wrote his book Second Treatise of Government in 1689, right after the Glorious Revolution.