215k views
1 vote
How did French Entitlement thinkers Baron de

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

User Niorad
by
7.3k points

1 Answer

4 votes

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

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.

User Brave
by
7.9k points