Men and women from all over the country of France rallied together to fight the injustice and cruelty of the French aristocracy. ... This estate included the French king, Louis XVI, and queen, Marie Antoinette. ... In the years before the revolution began the Enlightenment Era swept over all of Europe. ... It stipulated that all men should be equal no matter of estate or financial security. ... All the peasants rage manifested itself into the Storming of the Bastille. ...

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In A Tale of Two Cities, basically all of the normal French citizens were poor. ... "All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine." ... The only two historical characters A Tale of Two Cities are King George III and Charlotte Sophia. The author describes King George III like this " There was a King with a large jaw and a Queen with a plain face on the throne of England" (Dickens 35). ... This is the same thinking of someone such as Martin Luther King Jr. ...

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To list all of the causes would be utter chaos so I decided to divide them into four categories. ... Without food or money there the Third Class couldn't do much but revolt against the king. ... Members from all three orders met on May 5, 1789 in the Versailles palace. ... The king had a huge debt to pay; common people couldn't make money buy food. With King Louis XVI as a ruler there were a lot of political problems that occurred. ...

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Where the wealth is concentrated in the king or nobility, in the case of an aristocracy, one must have laws regarding inheritance of property. Property should not be split up from a single child in accordance with primogenitor where the first son inherits all. ... The general principle of democracy is virtue, where people govern themselves and do the right thing all the time. ... In this way no one branch of government would have a large majority of power, as King Louis XIV was working on a tyranny. England had a king, parliament and the commons. ...

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Where the wealth is concentrated in the king or nobility, in the case of an aristocracy, one must have laws regarding inheritance of property. Property should not be split up from a single child in accordance with primogenitor where the first son inherits all. ... The general principle of democracy is virtue, where people govern themselves and do the right thing all the time. ... In this way no one branch of government would have a large majority of power, as King Louis XIV was working on a tyranny. England had a king, parliament and the commons. ...

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Philosophers taught to challenge all conventional standards (Hampson 47). ... Author Thomas Carlyle said of queen Marie Antoinette, "walks like a goddess of Beauty, the cynosure of all eyes; as yet mingles not with affairs; heeds not the future; least of all, dreads it" (27). ... On May 5th, 1789, all of the estates gathered at Versailles, France in an effort to discuss issues to propose to the king. ... In 1786, Jacques Necker, the financial minister for King Louis XVI, implied taxation over all concerning the income of a household. ... The king, whom did not have a budget, had his ...

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On July 14, 1789, a mob stormed the Bastille in Paris, and a short time later imprisoned the king and royal family in the palace of the Tuileries. ... In 1792 the National Convention declared France a republic and had the king tried as a traitor and condemned to death. ... France was an absolute monarchy, which meant that the king held all the power and the people living in the country had no say in the government structure or the activities of the government. ... It consisted of all the people, which did not fit into the other categories. ... Because of this, the wealth French paid little or ...

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The Jews were desperate for a King because they were afraid that they could not protect themselves without a ruler. ... Years later, having forgotten Gideon's reply, they asked Samuel to deliver a King. ... "We have added unto our sins this evil, to ask a King (Paine 76)." ... They responded to Common Sense by saying "the setting up and putting down kings and governments, is God's peculiar prerogative; for causes best known to himself that we may live a peaceable and quiet life, in all goodliness and honesty; under the government which God is pleased to set over us (Paine 126)." ....

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The document stated all citizens had natural rights and gave the French lower class a chance to rise to the level of the upper class. ... The National Assembly was a massive step towards a democracy and when the king was rumored to want to shut down them; it angered and put fear in the people that their chances of having natural rights would become slim. ... All in all, the Puritan and French Revolutions are related to one another. ... The revolution obliged the king to call on the Estates General, therefore limiting his power. ...

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The Enlightenment was an 18th century European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principals of reason and scientific method to all aspects of society. ... The first two estates had never gotten taxed before and now they were going to be by King Louie the Sixteenth, because of France's huge debt problem. ... The Assembly formed an army and stormed the Bastille, where the king was living at the time with his wife and children. ...

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Lands held by commoners are taxed heavily.. " The middle class people listed grievances against the king on taxes and voting rights. ... This would give them the rights to have the government make tax on land be equal among all classes. ... This government was developed to serve all the people equally and protect their rights. ...

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After the war between the King of Avar and Bulgar Voltaire gives a horrific description of what Candide sees in the villages he walks through. ... Voltaire hints to Candide making an error in not questioning Pangloss" authority through all of Candide's travels, finding that rationally there was no way that being hanged and disfigured by disease could happen to anyone in the best of all possible worlds. ... The book basically narrates Candide's quest to find Cunegonde and marry her, while accounting all of the hardships Candide encounters on his quest for love. ... When it comes...

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The old idea was that the king was sent by god to be a ruler, known as the divine right. ... Locke deeply influenced the population, not only of England but all of Europe. ... The impact of all these thinkers was that they forced the society to questioned whether they believed that they were being ruled fairly of not. ...

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Puritans held on to the doctrine of original sin in which all humans are damned from the start. ... During King Phillip's War, the settlers and the Indians were fighting. ... She associated all of her misfortune, as well as all of her reliefs on her journey, to God. ... She applied her faith in all areas of her life, even those which would make a person today question theirs. ... One of them that stood out was: "He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peacful pipe; but even this was singulary metamorphosed. ...

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Puritans held on to the doctrine of original sin in which all humans are damned from the start. ... During King Phillip's War, the settlers and the Indians were fighting. ... She associated all of her misfortune, as well as all of her reliefs on her journey, to God. ... She applied her faith in all areas of her life, even those which would make a person today question theirs. ... One of them that stood out was: "He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peacful pipe; but even this was singulary metamorphosed. ...

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He speaks of man's natural right to govern themselves and King George's actions not protecting but suppressing these rights. ... The talk of revolution was on the tongues of almost all of the colonists. ... All of these things were sparked by Paine's, Common Sense. ...

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The king and also the Parliament believe that they had the right to tax the colonies. ... In 1765 ,the Stamp Act was passed this Act was required a tax stamp on all printed items : from college diplomas court documents, and titles and contracts to newspapers, almanacs, and playing cards. ...

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This document was written in response to political and social changes brought about by King Frederick of Prussia. ... In an enlightened age we would all be religious without clergymen because we would know which things we should be obedient or disobedient. ... Kant later outlines the meaning of enlightenment, "I have focused on religious matters in setting out my main point concerning enlightenment, i.e., man's emergence from self-imposed immaturity, first because our rulers have no interest in assuming the role of their subjects' guardians with respect to the arts and sciences, and ...

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Some saw him as a refreshing face that would bring life back into Spain, while others, specifically in Catalonia, did not like their new king. ... "When the papal nuncio protested, Pombal threatened to cut all links with the Vatican and establish an autonomous national church in semi-Protestant style.... Portugal, after all, was the least enlightened and fell behind the rest of Europe. ... Pompal may not have been seen this way to the people of Portugal, but he did get his reforms on all of the fronts that Charles III made including education. ...

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