The Protestant Reformation, with its antipathy toward received religious dogma, was another precursor. Perhaps the most important sources of what became the Enlightenment were the complementary rational and empirical methods of discovering the truth that was introduced by the scientific revolution.
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The reform to voting procedures that followed the Panic of 1819 was that men no longer needed to own property in order to vote .