Question

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..." This quotation above is evidence that some of the basic ideas in the Declaration of Independence were reflections of the philosophies of the European Enlightenment. adaptions of the laws of Spanish colonial governments in North America. limitations of the principles underlying most European governments of the 1700s. adoptions of rules used by the Holy Roman Empire.

Answer 1

A) limitations of the principles underlying most European governments of the 1700’s.

Answer 2

The correct answer is A) the philosophies of the European Enlightenment.

This quotation above is evidence that some of the basic ideas in the Declaration of Independence were reflections of the philosophies of the European Enlightenment.

The European Enlightenment was a time in which brilliant thinkers and philosophers proposed new concepts about the form of government, citizens' rights, social contracts, and liberties.

We are talking about philosophers like Voltaire, Thomas Hobbes, Baron de Montesquious, Jean.Jaques Rosseau, and John Locke.

These thinkers directly influenced the founding fathers of the United States when they drafted the Declaration of Independence, and years later, the creation of the Constitution during the ConstitutionalConventon of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1787.