EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Declaration of Independence and Declaration of the Rights of Man
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The Treaty of Paris and Rights of Man
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The Federalist Papers and Magna Carta
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Mayflower Compact and English Bill of Rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Enlightenment ideas had a major influence on the leaders of the American Revolution. English leaders in America shared with John Locke the traditions of the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -The sources of the Declaration included the major thinkers of the French Enlightenment, such as Montesquieu, who had urged the separation of powers, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who wrote of general will-the concept that the state represents the general will of the citizens.
Detailed explanation-4: -The text of England’s Magna Carta or “Great Charter, ” written in 1215; ideas in this document later influenced the Declaration. An excerpt from Two Treatises of Government, written by the Enlightenment philosopher John Locke in 1690.
Detailed explanation-5: -Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher with some radical ideas. He argued passionately for democracy, equality, liberty, and supporting the common good by any means necessary. While his ideas may be utopian (or dystopian), they are thought-provoking and can inform modern discourse.