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Montesquieu's aim in The Spirit of the Laws is to explain human laws and social institutions.
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Congress asked Thomas Jefferson and others to write a
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During the French Revolution, the previous absolute monarchy and the entire social three estate system was overthrown.
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It was the take over of the Directory by the three Consuls of France. Napoleon had control over the military and mandated his selection as the First Consul.
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On the 2nd of December 1804 Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris.
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Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony.
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Mexican independence was set by political and economic changes in Europe and its American colonies of the late 18th and 19th centuries.
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In 1815, twenty five years of war finally came to an end with the surrender of the Emperor Napoleon and his banishment to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
