The writings of Jean Jacques ROUSSEAU, Baron de MONTESQUIEU, and John LOCKE were similar in that each supported the principles of a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. The ideas of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Montesquieu influenced movements for POLITICAL REFORM.
The ideas of Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Voltaire are most closely associated with the Congress of Vienna Scientific Revolution Enlightenment unification of Italy One way in which the writings of John Locke and of Baron de Montesquieu are similar is that they 4 points supported the idea of governments having limited powers resulted in the development of mercantile economic systems O promoted the ideas of the Protestant Reformation strengthened the divine right claims of European monarchs
In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
The legal challenges contribute to the decline of Reconstruction when President Lincoln announced that there is a plan for reconstructing the Confederate states which are already under the Union control. He proposed to excuse the Confederate who took a pledge to support the Union.
An example showing someone's first amendment rights be violated is a college fraternity composed of close friends who share living quarters is forced to admit women.