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The Enlightenment ideas that are reflected in important documents such as the Declaration of Independence are "natural rights," "equality," "popular sovereignty," and "the separation of powers."
Brilliant thinkers and philosophers such as Baron de Montesquiou, Jean-Jaques Rosseau, Voltaire, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, influenced the founding fathers of the United States with their novel ideas about government, society, and citizenship.
One way in which akbar trhe great, suleiman the magnificent, and philip II are similar is that they were all dictators, who generally made decisions about their populace without needing the advice of a council or the general population.
The Declaration of Independence is divided into five parts: the preamble, the statement of philosophy, the grievances, the operative words, and the statement of the signers.
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Enlightenment thinkers encouraged the improvement of society through the "(2) use of reason". This method of thinking had a great deal of influence on the American Revolution.
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