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The Enlightenment ideas that are reflected in important documents such as the Declaration of Independence are "natural rights," "equality," "popular sovereignty," and "the separation of powers."
Brilliant thinkers and philosophers such as Baron de Montesquiou, Jean-Jaques Rosseau, Voltaire, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, influenced the founding fathers of the United States with their novel ideas about government, society, and citizenship.