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Thesis Statement
The American Revolution and the ideas of Enlightenment philosophers influenced the French Revolution by showing that the people can reform government, fight for their three natural rights, and argue for the separation of government powers, resulting in the Fench people getting more power over their government; similar to the instance of the 2020 BLM movement in the United States. -
John Locke
"John Locke wrote that all individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain "inalienable" natural rights. That is rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away. Among these fundamental natural rights, Locke said, are "life, liberty, and property."https://www.crf-usa.org/foundations-of-our-constitution. John lock had three life liberties which are life, liberty, and property, these are God-given rights that are you get at birth with no exception -
trial
“The Republic of France was declared, and soon the King was put on trial"https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/educat, The people revealed they put the royal family under trial for not being good rulers. -
Montesquieu
Montesquieu-separation of powers-He asserted that, to most effectively promote liberty, these three powers must be separate and act independently. https://www.ncsl.org Montesquieu believed that the government should be in many parts which are legislative, executive, and judicial. this to not allow one person or a group of people to have all the power. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau This idea finds its most detailed treatment in The Social Contract.
In The Social Contract, Rousseau sets out to answer what he takes to be the fundamental question of politics, the reconciliation of the freedom of the individual with the authority of the state"https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/#PoliPhil. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2
Rousseau believes had a big part in the social contact he believed that the people and government had entered a contract and if the government was to break that contract the people had a right to overthrow the government and create a new one. -
King Louis XVI
“King Louis XVI needed more money but had failed to raise more taxes when he had called a meeting of the Estates-General. This instead turned into a protest about conditions in France”(https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/educatiF0)King Louis need money to help because he was spending the counter’s money on things that they chode not afford -
revolution
On July 14 1789 the Paris mob, hungry due to a lack of food from poor harvests, upset at the conditions of their lives, and annoyed with their King and Government, stormed the Bastille fortress (a prison).” https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/educat, A mob of people stormed the bastille fortress because they were hungry due to a shortage of food all around the nation.