As the American colonies pushed forward toward revolution, an underlying philosophy inspired the colonists to fight for independence and liberty. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin to name a few, spoke the theories and beliefs of the enlightenment philosophers to spread the sentiment of individual liberty and republicanism. This new political philosophy began a movement responsible for the birth of a new nation. Seldom mentioned, the enlightenment era and its philosophers created a belief that became the movement which led to revolution, independence, and eventually a new ...
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