1. Natural Rights and Ideal Government Through Atlantic World Revolutions
The revolutionaries agreed that life, liberty, and property should be considered natural rights, emphasizing property as a main source of inequality among man, and constructed new governments based on popularized Enlightenment ideas. French revolutionary Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced this idea of natural rights and inspired other countries to evaluate the nature of man and origins of inequality1. ... Latin America wanted equal treatment and the freedom they deserved as citizens, but resistance from natives and lack of communication amongst the groups deprived the Europeans of their libert...
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