Was first proposed by Thomas Jefferson.
It helped spread the ideas of the Enlightenment across Europe and beyond. ... The ideas of the Enlightenment played a major role in inspiring the French Revolution, which began in 1789. After the Revolution, the Enlightenment was followed by the intellectual movement known as Romanticism.
Those who opposed giving the federal government more power than the states were known as the "Anti-Federalists", since they did not want to ratify the Constitution, which would have done this.
