That they could change their government if it did not protect their rights
That they could change their government if it did not protect their rights
becsuse it can
The Enlightenment period promoted ideals such as reason, individualism, secularism, and the rights of individuals. It emphasized the importance of scientific reasoning, democracy, freedom of speech, and tolerance. The period encouraged a questioning of traditional authority and beliefs in favor of progress and intellectual freedom.
The Enlightenment inspired democratic ideas about the rights of man.
They began to desire political equality
They began to desire political equality
A child of the Enlightenment movement, john Locke, wrote the Social Contract that first allowed the justification for America to break away from England. Enlightenment also contributed to the ideas of equality, religious tolerance, and freedom of speech that was adapted by the US government.
Colonists were becoming less religious...the ideas of the Enlightenment appealed to them because it minimized God as a divine force and maximized human thinking and science.
Colonists were becoming less religious...the ideas of the Enlightenment appealed to them because it minimized God as a divine force and maximized human thinking and science.
Thomas Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
what were economic ideas of the enlightenment
an effort to defend Calvinism against Enlightenment ideas
There were three ideas that the colonists brought with them about government when they traveled to the new world from England. These ideas included one of an ordered government, limited government and representative government.
Ideas from the Enlightenment thinkers ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)