The correct answer is A) Political leaders fought against forms of the imperial government.
The other options of the question were B) Political leaders abandoned the ideals of democracy and liberty C) Political leaders embraced slavery to develop stronger economies. D) Political leaders strengthened and expanded existing empires.
The development that was a consequence of the Enlightenment was "Political leaders fought against forms of the imperial government."
During the Enlightenment period in Europe, a number of extraordinary minds came up with new political and social ideas that included liberty and some rights that changed the way politics were performed and directly influenced independence movement such as the Revolutionary War in the United States, the French Revolution of the Independence of México. Among those notable thinkers, they were Montesquiou, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jaques Rousseau.
The Double V campaign was a slogan and drive to promote the fight for democracy in overseas campaigns and at the home front in the United States for African Americans during World War II.
There are several ways in which the ideas of Hobbes and Locke differed, but in general Hobbes was more focused on the human condition, while Locke focused on the social contract.