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How did French Entitlement thinkers Baron de

Montesquieu and Jean-Jacques Rousseau influence the
colonists (and the Founding Fathers)?

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He basically advocated direct democracy. When Rousseau wrote the Social Contract, there was not a society in the world with such a system. His vision of equality, popular participation in government, and promotion of the general welfare, however, was shared by American colonists and others.

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