Benjamin Franklin embodied Enlightenment ideas in the British Atlantic with his scientific experiments and philanthropic endeavors. He was a prominent member of the Freemasons, a fraternal society that advocated Enlightenment principles of inquiry and tolerance. During his retirement in 1748, he devoted himself to politics and scientific experiment. His most famous work, on electricity, exemplified Enlightenment principles.
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The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason and science. It included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideas such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state.
Federalism is best defined as a principle of <span>government that "(1) divides power between the central government and state governments" although it varies slightly. </span>
