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Latin American liberation movements were often based on Enlightenment ideas of natural rights. Describe some of the natural rights Hidalgo could have listed in his decree as explanations for why he wished to abolish slavery, taxes based on race, and the requirement of the seal.

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Latin American liberation movements were often based on Enlightenment ideas of natural rights. Describe some of the natural rights Hidalgo could have listed in his decree as explanations for why he wished to abolish slavery, taxes based on race, and the requirement of the seal.

The natural ideas that priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla could have listed in his decree could have been the right to life, liberty, and property. Indeed that is what he referred to when he gathered all the people from the Mexican town of Dolores, Hidalgo.

Enlightenment thinkers and philosophers such as Voltaire, Jean-Jaques Rosseau, Baron of Montesquieu, or John Locke, developed interesting concepts about government and citizen rights that years later influenced important revolutionary movements as was the case of the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution, and the Independence Movement of México.