poor economic, socail, and living conditions lead to a revolution in France that forms a new and balanced goverment based on the enlightenment ideals.
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t. Hobbs
Believed that all men are born evil and selfish. They should be ruled by a single authoritative figure. Base line for following government contracts. People should place their trust in the goverment to do their job. (Black and Beck) -
Locke
John Locke believed in three natural rights. All men were born with the rights to their life, liberty, and property. He also believed that it was the governments job to protect these rights.(Black and Beck) -
Voltaire
Voltaire believed in the separation of church and state. He believed that politics and the church should not cross. At this time it was common for the church to be more powerful than the government. The church had no place in government and that people should have religious freedom.(Black and Beck) -
Montesquieu
Montesquieu believed in the separation of power. No one ruler should hold all the power as what was common at the time. Removed the idea of an absolute monarchy and replaced it with a three branched government. His idea is that you have three branches the executive, legislative and judicial branch. These three branches help balance power. His thought was that their should be separation of power and no one ruler have complete reign over the people.( Black and Beck) -
Rousseau
Rousseau believed in a contract between the people and government. His idea varied from Hobbs though. He believed in a mutual contract between the government and the people. The people had the right to voice their opinion and if they were ignored and mistreated they had the right to break off and form their own government.(Black and Beck) -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Declaration of the rights of man and citizen are based on the USA's declaration of independence. These ideas were made of three rights which were Life, Liberty, and prusuit of happyness. These ideas were based on Locke's three natural rights which were; life,liberty,and property. the declaration of the rights of man and citizen also follows along the lines of a contract between the people and the goverment which was Rousseau's belife.( new world encyclopedia) -
National constituent abolishes feudalism
The abolishment of feudalism leads to nobles, clergy, towns, provinces, companies and cities to lose their special privileges. " forcibly eliminated the traditional rights and privileges of the aristocratic class." Montesquieu believed in seperation of power so that no one person was too powerful. This ensured that that their choices did not out way the common need instead of selfintrest. (new world encyclopedia) -
clergy takes oath of loyalty to the Constitution
Remaining Clergy are turned into employees of the state and required to take an oath of loyalty to the constution. The workers of the churches are no longer loyal to the church but the goverment. This was not the case prevously, they were loyal to the church which at this time was more powerful than the goverment. This was the begining of the seperation of church and state. This idea sprouted from voltaire; church and state should be seperated. (new world encyclopedia) -
The Church no longer is able to tax dime
"Legislation enacted in 1790 abolished the Church's authority to levy a tax on crops known as the dîme, cancelled special privileges for the clergy, and confiscated Church property.""To no small extent, the Assembly addressed the financial crisis by having the nation take over the property of the Church through the law of December 2, 1789." The church loses it specail privlages and the goverment takes over welfare programs prevously prived by the church. ( new world encyclopedia) -
official separation of church and state
"The Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon and the Church ended the dechristianisation period and established the rules for a relationship between the Catholic Church and the French State that lasted until it was abrogated by the Third Republic via the separation of church and state on December 11, 1905." This ensured that the church did not have power over the people anymore. This was voltaires idea that church and state should be seperated.( new world encyclopedia) -
Works Cited
"French Revolution." New World Encyclopedia, . 11 May 2017, 14:42 UTC. 9 May 2018, 13:51 http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/p/index.php?title=French_Revolution&oldid=1004735. Beck, Roger B. World History: Patterns of Interaction. McDougal Littell, 2005.
