When the third estate finds that their votes do not matter in the Estates General, they form their own meeting, The National Assembly. When the King realizes that things look bad he sends his clergymen to compromise and they come up with a document called, The Declaration of Rights of Man. Rousseau and Locke believed that all men are born free and should be ruled by no higher power, such as government. This document resembled the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment ideas. Rousseau was the philosophe that believed that all men should be free and equal.
The philosophe that came up with the great idea of Separation of Powers and the idea that government should have a system of checks and balances was Baron de Montesque. Moreover he believed the three parts of government should be the Judicial, the Executive, and the Legislative branches. Surprisingly, these ideas do resemble some of the points in the American governmental documents. It resembles the U.S. Bill of Rights. These ideas also become the reason for war when Napoleon came along. At first it seemed as if he was going to be one of those mean dictators, but instead he really changed things for France. He separated Church from State, gave equality rights, and let the children get schooling, but only in future needed positions.
When time came for the colonies to revolt against the British they also looked to some of the Enlightenment ideas for guidance. At first the American Revolution came and the United States became a free country from England. Then the Constitutional Convention came, for the purposes of creating regulations for the government. At this convention the constitution was created which said that there would be three branches of government: Executive, Judicial, and Legislative. Also it stated that there would be a System of Checks and Balances. Which meant that each one of the branches had power over the other, so that no branch could become too powerful.