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The Enlightenment influenced the French and Haitian Revolutions by inculcating on the minds of people the possibility and importance of equality and representative government.
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- Toussaint L’Ouverture, a slave who was influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment, went to the Caribbeans and inculcated on the minds of the people the significance of freedom.
- He took charge as the leader of the revolution in Haiti and led it against their French colonizer.
- The seeking of equality and equal representation proposed through the enlightenment ideas became the foundation of the French Revolution.
The framers agreed to include the Bill of Rights to satisfy Anti-Federalists. Ant-Federalists believed the Constitution gave the government too much power. The refused to support the Constitution unless it included a Bill of Rights.
The correct answer is A) They could make requests of the king without fear of getting into trouble for it.
"That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal."
This quote from the English Bill of Rights would have influenced the American colonists to think that "They could make requests of the king without fear of getting into trouble for it."
Indeed, the English Bill of Rights inspired the founding fathers of the United States in writing the Bill of Rights for the new nation, as was the case of James Madison, the drafter of the US Bill of Rights.
American people during colonial times were angry and desperate for the heavy taxation imposed by the King of England. So they felt they had the right to voice out their opinions and demand better treatment to Great Britain. The colonists had to pay taxes but did not have a voice or representation in the British Parliament. And this issue was a major cause for the beginning of the Revolutionary War of Independence.
I guess you could say that in those days people threw parties all of the time. (We still do.) It was something to do. You did not need a reason. If you were the head of your family and important to the village, you were expected to throw parties.
