They convinced the viceroy to call a representative assembly to provide the Creoles with legitimacy while the King was out the picture. ... Ideas that praised individual rights for example, like the notion that ultimate authority in society resides with the people, not with the king. ... Many future leaders of the Spanish American independence movements spent time in Europe as students of the enlightened ideas. ... Latin American still continues to move toward modernization but it has been long and tough road filled with tension, turmoil, and struggles to regain the independence that they once...

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