EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Mayflower Compact and English Bill of Rights
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The Treaty of Paris and the Rights of Man
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Declaration of Independence
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The Federalist Papers and Magna Carta
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Social Contract begins with the sensational opening sentence: “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains, ” and proceeds to argue that people need not be in chains.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rousseau greatly influenced Immanuel Kant’s work on ethics. His novel Julie or the New Heloise impacted the late eighteenth century’s Romantic Naturalism movement, and his political ideals were championed by leaders of the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -Inspired by the American Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the spirit of the Enlightenment, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 marked the beginning of a new political era.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jean-Jacques Rousseau-The Champion of Democracy In 1762, fourteen years before the Declaration of Independence, he wrote his most important work, The Social Contract. In it, he writes, “MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.