1) Man is born selfish but can give up some freedom in return for security provided by the government.
2) Both believed in the theory of a social contract.
The social contract is a theory that arose throughout the Age of Enlightenment and regularly involves the legitimacy of the state´s authority over the individual. Some of its most notable theorists were Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
3) The French provided financial support to the American revolutionaries, causing massive debt that led the French king to raise taxes.
When American colonists won independence from Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, the French, who participated in the war themselves, were both close allies and key participants. They were inspired by the American fight against a taxation system they found discriminating and unfair, and their battle against absolutism and unequal rights.
4) It used humor to show the need for social reform.
Candide (1759) is a French satire by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.
Was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.<span> The </span>Inca civilization<span> arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century.</span>
Washington recognizes that it is natural for people to organize and operate within groups such as political parties, but he also argues that every government has recognized political parties as an enemy and has sought to repress them because of their tendency to seek more power than other groups
