EMERGENCE OF USA
POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION
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there German priests
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the Catholic Church
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the enlightenment
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Detailed explanation-1: -Liberalism. Another idea central to American Enlightenment thinking is liberalism, that is, the notion that humans have natural rights and that government authority is not absolute, but based on the will and consent of the governed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Following the American Revolution, those Enlightenment principles-including liberty, equality, and individual rights-became enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, even though many rights were initially reserved mostly for landowning white men.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions. The American and French Revolutions were directly inspired by Enlightenment ideals and respectively marked the peak of its influence and the beginning of its decline.
Detailed explanation-4: -So what was it? The Enlightenment, sometimes called the ‘Age of Enlightenment’, was a late 17th-and 18th-century intellectual movement emphasizing reason, individualism, and skepticism.