HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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debating the role of the church in society
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promoting increased power for European monarchs
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supporting the divine right theory
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changing the relationship between people and their government
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Detailed explanation-1: -Writers of the Enlightenment were primarily interested in: Changing the relationship between people and their government = moving from an absolute monarchy to a democracy.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Enlightenment thinkers favored much more democratic forms of government in which the authority to rule stemmed from those who are ruled. Some of the most famous Enlightenment thinkers, including Locke and Rousseau, were social contract theorists.
Detailed explanation-4: -Enlightenment thinkers believed that governments had a responsibility to hold up their end of the social contract. If a government failed, then citizens would no longer agree to be governed and they would have the right to revolt. This idea is known as consent of the governed.