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These writings challenged traditional social, religious, and political values.
These writings challenged traditional social, religious, and political values.
These writings challenged traditional social, religious, and political values.
Apex : C.These writings challenged traditional, social, religious, and political values.
These writings challenged traditional social, religious, and political values.
The writings of Enlightenment thinkers influenced the Founding Fathers by shaping their ideas on natural rights, liberty, and the role of government. Thinkers like John Locke, Montesquieu, and Voltaire inspired the Founding Fathers to draft documents like the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, which emphasized individual rights, separation of powers, and limited government.
There were several different political writings that influenced the Framers. These writing were from enlightment thinkers. Some of those works include, The Spirit of Laws, and the works of John Locke.
Like John Locke, Sir Francis Bacon and Baruch Spinoza were political philosophers whose works had some connection to the Age of Enlightenment, a period when the common man was no longer content with being a peasant. He yearned for intellectual stimulation.
the natural rights of man
The European Enlightenment was most important for the ideas of government. New thinkers led the way for governments that were more responsive to the needs and rights of citizens. The writings of John Locke, for example greatly influenced the Framers of the US Constitution.
I believe Machiavelli is the answer. Though the term is much older and dates to Roman and Greek thinkers it began it's more current meaning from the writings of Machiavelli who used it to describe the states of Northern Italy, which were not monarchies.
Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they challenged the old order.