I’m not sure when you say U.S. but the Republicans supported the idea of state rights. (If you could clarify you question I could help more).
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Well-known political writing skills is the trait of Thomas Jefferson led the Continental Congress to choose him to write the Declaration of Independence.
The primary economic and political conditions following world war 1 that encouraged dictatorships were sinking economies and harsh reparations imposed on Germany for starting the war. These conditions led to humiliation that facilitated the rise of dictators who "took charge".
The printing press was important to the spread of the Renaissance and Humanist thinking because it made it easier to print books and pamphlets. People then soon read more often and understood the ideas written in the book or pamphlet. At the time it was the priests who only knew how to read, so they would plant ideas into people's heads causing them to not have ideas of their ideas. Because of the printing press, people started to learn to think on their own.