| AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT |
Helping to shape the new American Nation and its constitution, Thomas Jefferson was a product of The Enlightenment.
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Helping to shape the new American Nation and its constitution, Thomas Jefferson was a product of The Enlightenment. |
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The Age of Enlightenment included the English Civil War (1642-1666), the American Revolution (1775-1783), The French Revolution (1789-1795), and the French domination of Europe under Napolean (1799-1815). Political thinkers of the time contributed ideas about changing the structures of government. These included English writer John Locke, Frenchman Montesquieu who generated ideas about the separation of powers in government, revolutionary writer Thomas Paine, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who believed that the will of the people should represent the supreme power in government. |