I think it was in the ideas of certain guaranteed rights for everyone, similar I think to Lockes philosophies of natural rights that every human has. Or it was possibly the representation of citizens, or Bicameral legislation.
I'm reallllly not sure. You should look it up. Right now it's all a blur of enlightenment thinkers.
It might be better to specify that question, as every bigger enlightenment philosopher contributed his very own challenges.
Generally, the basic idea of an equallity of men, which we base our human rights upon, collided with the idea of absolutism in so far that an absolute monarch considered himself directely empowered by god, which made such a monarch stand above humanity and law.
Specifically, Montasque introduced the idea of the seperation of powers into legislative, executive, and judicative and called a system in which all three were in one hand "intolerable". Well, guess what...
I only studied from Aristotle to Kant. Sorry, bud. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> Wish I could help you out.
If you really want to learn something, study Kant. Every philosopher since Kant has been trying to figure out what he meant by what he said.
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I'm reallllly not sure. You should look it up. Right now it's all a blur of enlightenment thinkers.
Generally, the basic idea of an equallity of men, which we base our human rights upon, collided with the idea of absolutism in so far that an absolute monarch considered himself directely empowered by god, which made such a monarch stand above humanity and law.
Specifically, Montasque introduced the idea of the seperation of powers into legislative, executive, and judicative and called a system in which all three were in one hand "intolerable". Well, guess what...
what grade ya in?
Wish I could help you out.
If you really want to learn something, study Kant. Every philosopher since Kant has been trying to figure out what he meant by what he said.