How did ideas from the Enlightenment become part of revolutionary ideology?

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Sim W.
Apr 25, 2017

They were popular among the elite from which the Founding Fathers were from.

Explanation:

The Engliightment dominated the intellectual life in the eighteenth century and it was popular among the elite, the Founding Fathers were not commoners and were thus influenced by it.

The Enlighment that influenced the Founders was the ideas of John Locke, one of the main thinkers of the Glorious Revolution in England.

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