Highlight the political reason behind the french revolution of 1789
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Political causes of French revolution:
Ideas of political philosophers: Ideas envisaging a society based on freedom and equal laws and opportunities for all, were put forward by philosophers such as John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau. In his Two Treatises of Government, Locke sought to refute the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the monarch. Rousseau carried the idea forward, proposing a form of government based on a social contract between people and their representatives. In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu proposed a division of power within the government between the legislative, the executive and the judiciary. This model of governance was put to function in American government and was set as an example to the French revolutionaries.
Denial of rights: The third estate was represented by its more prosperous and educated members. Peasants, artisans and women
were denied entry to the assembly.
Ideas of political philosophers: Ideas envisaging a society based on freedom and equal laws and opportunities for all, were put forward by philosophers such as John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau. In his Two Treatises of Government, Locke sought to refute the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the monarch. Rousseau carried the idea forward, proposing a form of government based on a social contract between people and their representatives. In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu proposed a division of power within the government between the legislative, the executive and the judiciary. This model of governance was put to function in American government and was set as an example to the French revolutionaries.
Denial of rights: The third estate was represented by its more prosperous and educated members. Peasants, artisans and women
were denied entry to the assembly.
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