<span>These rights are not given to them by the government and cannot be taken away from them.
The rights were life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.</span>
The Enlightenment was an era where people started realizing that they had (human) rights, realized that the monarchy + aristrocrats/ rich ppl in general shouldn't do whatever they wanted to do (like kill a bunch of ppl for saying smth against the Crown's beliefs), realized that they are capable of believing and doing something more than just living as a peasant.
The French had really sucky monarchs (like King Louis the Thirteenth), and frankly, they were sick of living in famine and poverty, so it was kinda like being in the right place and at the right time-- they overthrew their monarchy, now aware that they had these rights (inspired by the Enlightenment). "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" was the slogan. Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood = everything the monarchy wasn't.
He launched the Great Leap Forward in 1958 following the first Five Year Plan that ended in 1957.
The Great Leap Forward was to push the economic growth of the China, by focusing on building its industry. The government demanded every civilians to collect as much steel as they could for the industry, which they turned out to furnace everything they've got. As the materials are nit utilized, the steel product cannot be used and became a waste of material.
People's commune is also set up for industrial development, which in the end caused the lower of farming products and the lack of food.
In this plan, about 41 million died from famine and by no means does it promote economic development thus is a failure.
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The idea that people within a state can and should determine the laws within that state is referred to as <span>popular sovereignty. </span>
