... without his own consent." (Locke, 31) His words proved importance as a justification for the American revolution. "Whensoever.. the legislative shall transgress.. the people.. have a right to resume their original liberty and provide for their own safety and security- (Locke, 33) The writers of the Constitution incorporated the thoughts of many Enlightenment thinkers, as they wrote the supreme law of the land. They followed the ideas of Philisophes, such as Fontenelle and Voltaire, who highly promoted ... ." (Con., 70) They also used the ideas of Montesquieu, who stressed the importance ...

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... formation of the bourgeoisie. These people coming from the middle class become educated and have the possibility to become wealthy through the profits they make in trade. With the growing of self-confidence and wealth members of the bourgeoisie worked their way up to higher administrational positions until they reached a level where the posts were reserved for members or relatives of the aristocracy. As their importance for the running of the state grew, along with the development of the Enlightenment ... and Natural Law providing them with theoretical background, they began to demand m...

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... was never set in stone, the thought and plans to abolish it, was of paramount importance to move Russia out of their older regime. Catherine was attracted to the French Enlightenment, keeping herself connected with great French minds like Voltaire and Montesquieu. Voltaire summed Catherine up in two words calling her a "benevolent despot," meaning an absolutist monarch molded by the philosophies of the Enlightenment. Rightfully named, she expanded ... culture and art, by building new schools, hospitals, founded the Hermit-Age ... ...

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... naming his ships after Voltaire, Diderot, and so forth (Stafford, p. 7). The significance of Voltaire in this regard lies; first, in the fact that, like the other thinkers mentioned in this passage, he was an exponent of Enlightenment ideals of human perfectibility and of the importance of reason. Yet, more so than his contemporaries, Voltaire was the very epitome of the ideology against which the Royal Navy was pitted, not only in its struggle against revolutionary ... France, but also in its efforts to quell mutinous conspiracies among its men. "To the British Empire the Nore Mutiny w...

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