1- Critical thinking
2- Gathering of new ideas
3- Questioning the established power
4- Economic crisis
5- Social crisis
Any society that has intellectual production develops critical thinking in pursuit of its own growth. And also in what keeps political forces alert to maintain power or to make a change. In the exchange of ideas, new proposals are generated that promote the change of paradigm. These question the established power as well as society when it is overwhelmed by an economic crisis. Which often leads to riots and social crisis.
French Revolution:
With absolutism in decline economic hardships caused frequent revolts. They take more and more force the ideas of the Enlightenment go against the absolute power and the participation of the clergy in the questions of State. Among the thinkers of the revolution are Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu and Voltaire.
Some were slaves so they were mad
A federal government and a confederate government differ in where the majority of the power lies. In a federal government the central government holds the most power and states have less. In a confederate government the states hold the majority of the power. The Confederate States of America acted as sovereign states with each state having little influence from a more powerful central government.
