The effects of the enlightenment are evident in American Literature, the founding of Georgia as a colony, as well as the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. ... (Encarta encyclopedia) Enlightenment philosophers questioned the past and appealed to reason. ... In analyzing the writing of the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, it can be noted that his work reflects the political thought of the time. ...

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Any tax would take their money and in turn their property which was their key to independence. ... "(17) Furthermore there was a another "principle forming the Americans mind that all men are created equal"(76) That declaration meant to the Americans that they should have the same independence as a nation as what others enjoyed and only have to pay taxes they levied therefore on themselves for their own benefit not the benefit of some far off guardian. ... Morgan here brings up a very good question or shall I say argument, "were the colonists sincere in their declarations of principle or were ...

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(Outline, 1) Enlightenment thinkers viewed the universe as if a science experiment, relating questions with the scientific method formulated by previous men such as Newton. ... (American Enlightenment [2], 1) The rationalistic and logical thought of the Enlightenment was revolutionary for the time, for it questioned the sovereignty of God and monarchs. ... Enlightenment publications, such as Locke's The Reasonableness of Christianity, in which he questions the belief in an all-powerful, all-knowing God, further lessened the power of the church. ... This period, known as the Great Awakeni...

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The foundations of knowledge and reason influenced writers, philosophers, and citizens alike to question the legitimacy of such rule. ... Mimicking the scientists" curiosity, philosophers questioned the basic workings of government and society and in doing so gave rise to the Age of Enlightment. ... These rich, privileged men, and future authors of the Declaration of Independence, were confronted with an atmosphere that desperately required the backing of the poor and working-class people in their fight for democracy and freedom. ... Tom Pain's Common Sense (1776) delivered the first bold...

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This should be regarded as necessary reading for answering the Questions on Locke and Burke. ... A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another, there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another, without subordination or subjection, unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him, by an...

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