How do you think the ideas of rationalism and individualism lead to revolutions (the overthrowing of government) with the American colonies and the French?

Baron de Montesquieu declared that power should not be concentrated in the hands of any one individual. He recommended separating power among executive, legislative, judicial branches of government. American intellectuals began to absorb these ideas.

Also, in 1690, Locke published his Two Treatises of Government. ... He argued that natural rights such as life, liberty, and property existed in the state of nature and could never be taken away or even voluntarily given up by individuals. These rights were “inalienable”.

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the deaths of over a million communist soldiers

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