1. Liberty
One of the major political causes of The French revolution was the despotic rule of the Bourbon Kings: "For nearly 200 years government in France had been largely a one-man institution. ... "He maintained that originally all men had lived in a state of nature in which absolute freedom and equality prevailed, and there was no government of any kind. ... Habitants, fences, domesticated animals, men, women, and children and the soil that bore them all won out." ... Although the American Revolution validated the idea that all men were created equal, slavery was legal in all the thirteen colonie...
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