Ideas from the Enlightenment in the Declaration of...

During the Enlightenment period, it was the age of reason. Where people understood and viewed things differently. However, centuries later from that time period (1700s) both America and France incorporated and reflected various enlightenment ideas and formed it into several documents such as the Bill of rights, Declaration of Independence both America and France, and the Constitution. These Enlightenment thinkers believed in our natural rights, our equality, and our freedom of speech, expression, and press. By having a unified government and society America and France decide to incorporate these ideas to change the fighting and all of the revolts and decided to get the freedom everyone deserves, except for women until later on. However, both America and France took bits of pieces of these ideas and slightly changed them. The one who reflected most of these enlightenment ideas was America. The Declaration of Independence helped gain our natural rights, our equality, and our freedom e veryone deserves in America on July 4th, 1776. For example, â€Å"A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.† (Jefferson, 1) clearly stated that no one can question or sent to jail by our opinions that our opinions count which, is an example of freedom of speech, that an enlightenment thinker named Voltaire believed in. This line allows us Americans say what we want to say without being penalized. The Declaration ofShow MoreRelatedThe Ideal American Vision : Benjamin Franklin Vs. John Winthrop2087 Words   |  9 Pagesof rules and regulations that provide the ideal conditions for living life. Though many people to this day may still argue their understanding of these idealistic views, there is an ideniable truth that it was two most influential figures in history from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Benjamin Franklin and John Winthrop, who helped shape this vision through their strong an d very different opinionated perspectives. God’ role and form of government, social classes gradation, nature and moral