Enlightenment Ideals Essay
The American, French, and Haitian people's followed the powerful Enlightenment ideals that became part of their strategy to engage them toward liberty and equality. Citizens and slaves gathered to fight a common enemy. They combined their Enlightenment ideals, they fought, and they won. By winning they were able to form a nation that contained people with a common ethnicity, language, history, religion, and culture, and most importantly, they governed themselves. Even though, the United States, France, and Haiti, were able to accomplish many goals such as equality in the U.S., the end of Feudalism in France, and the abolishment of slavery in Haiti, their ways of reaching their revolutionary ideals developed differently, which is made clear
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They did, however, draw deep inspiration from Enlightenment ideals just like the U.S.. In other words, they wanted to replace the ancien régime (old order), but unlike their American predecessors, they lacked the experience with self-governance. In an effort to put Enlightenment political thought into practice, France abolished the social order, requested the clergy to take an oath of loyalty to the state, promoted a constitution making the king chief executive offical but deprived him of legislative authority. In the end, France, which was originally a monarchy, became a constitutional monarchy. Very little change occurred from the French Revolution, or it, at most, was not as drastic as the American Revolution. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (DOROMAC), written on August 26th, 1789, follows in the steps of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, stating that men are born and remain free and equal in rights. The DOROMAC also states that the rights of men are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. This information is provided in document 3, and it’s purpose is to show how the Enlightenment ideas have influenced the French Declaration. In document 7, British politician and theorist, Edmund Burke states that the French Revolution was unnatural. From his point of view, Burke believed that the Revolution was not required and
They did, however, draw deep inspiration from Enlightenment ideals just like the U.S.. In other words, they wanted to replace the ancien régime (old order), but unlike their American predecessors, they lacked the experience with self-governance. In an effort to put Enlightenment political thought into practice, France abolished the social order, requested the clergy to take an oath of loyalty to the state, promoted a constitution making the king chief executive offical but deprived him of legislative authority. In the end, France, which was originally a monarchy, became a constitutional monarchy. Very little change occurred from the French Revolution, or it, at most, was not as drastic as the American Revolution. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (DOROMAC), written on August 26th, 1789, follows in the steps of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, stating that men are born and remain free and equal in rights. The DOROMAC also states that the rights of men are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. This information is provided in document 3, and it’s purpose is to show how the Enlightenment ideas have influenced the French Declaration. In document 7, British politician and theorist, Edmund Burke states that the French Revolution was unnatural. From his point of view, Burke believed that the Revolution was not required and