For the answer to the question above, the first phase of the French Revolution took much inspiration from the works of Montesquieu, Thomas Jefferson, and John Locke, whose ideas the revolutionaries in America had also touted. Their ideas came to the fore in the early phases of the revolution, when the National Constituent Assembly replaced the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime with a constitutional monarchy, Montesquieu's favored system of government. In 1789, the same assembly passed "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen," a document that draws deeply from the works of John Locke and from Thomas Jefferson's "Declaration of Independence."
Bolivar Simon ought to be considered the Spanish American equivalent of both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Like Washington, Bolívar<span> led a people onto the battlefield to gain independence. Like Jefferson, </span>Bolívar<span> drafted constitutions </span>inspired<span> by the ideas of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, so they are all connected. The one event inspired the other event</span>
