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Bayle
believed that Christianity means to abandon Reason and the human rationality. -
Fontelle
admirer of Descartes' physics and his radical rationalism threatend the Christanity and the established church. -
Salons
A gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host. First appeared in France in 1664. -
Philosophes
The rational investigation of the truths and principles of being,knowledge, or conduct. -
Montesquieu
was influenced by John Locke, wrote "L'espirit des lois-(1748) -
Voltaire
Attacked the philosophres of Continental Rationalism. Also worte "The Candid." -
The Decleration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
The Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America.[1] The Constitution originally consisted of seven Articles. The first three Articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislature, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judiciary, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts -
The Bill of Rights
Articles 3 to 12, however, ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights. -
The Enlightenment
a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. -
Enlightened despots
Enlightened absolutism (also called by later historians benevolent despotism or enlightened despotism) is a form of absolute monarchy or despotism in which rulers were influenced by the Enlightenment.
