HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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he copied the French Revolution
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he copied the French Revolution
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from ancient Greek philosophy
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European Enlightenment writers like Locke and Rousseau
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas Jefferson used the thoughts first penned by John Locke while writing the Declaration of Independence. The phrase “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, ‘’ was an idea first considered by Locke in his Two Treatises on Government.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Jefferson was strongly influenced by John Locke’s social contract theory, while Thomas Paine found inspiration in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rousseau’s ideas in Social Contract heavily influenced the Declaration of Independence. He claimed that people would give up unlimited freedom for the security provided by a government, but also that people of the state hold ultimate right to power.
Detailed explanation-4: -Enlightenment philosophers John Locke, Charles Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all developed theories of government in which some or even all the people would govern. These thinkers had a profound effect on the American and French revolutions and the democratic governments that they produced.