Which countries was inspired by the declaration of independence and the american revolution?
The most obvious one is France, which underwent a revolution of its own against its own king and queen over a ten year period, from 1789 to 1799. During that period, France went from an absolute monarchy to a republic. In 1789 the French National Constituent Assembly used the Declaration of Independence as a guide to drafting its own "Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen." Thomas Jefferson even helped write it while he was in France. The Assembly first wanted to make clear the rights that citizens had prior to writing a formal constitution. As a sidelight, one point made in the Declaration of Rights of Man was a condemnation of the notion of the "divine right of kings." This was a philosophy that Thomas Paine had written about in "Common Sense", which greatly influenced the French people. Second thing - U.S. Constitution is said to be the first one, other ones were inspired by it.
Which countries was inspired by the declaration of independence and the american revolution?
The most obvious one is France, which underwent a revolution of its own against its own king and queen over a ten year period, from 1789 to 1799. During that period, France went from an absolute monarchy to a republic. In 1789 the French National Constituent Assembly used the Declaration of Independence as a guide to drafting its own "Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen." Thomas Jefferson even helped write it while he was in France. The Assembly first wanted to make clear the rights that citizens had prior to writing a formal constitution. As a sidelight, one point made in the Declaration of Rights of Man was a condemnation of the notion of the "divine right of kings." This was a philosophy that Thomas Paine had written about in "Common Sense", which greatly influenced the French people. Second thing - U.S. Constitution is said to be the first one, other ones were inspired by it.
How did John Locke influence the Declaration of Independence?
When you read Jefferson's stirring phrasing about the natural right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... you are reading a version of Locke. [See: John Locke: Natural Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property ]Jefferson's fellow Virginian, George Mason, had rendered the idea earlier, in The Virgina Declaration of Rights as this: [ GEORGE MASON & HISTORIC HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTS ]That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.Here's one of Locke's versions: [ John Locke on the rights to life, liberty, and property of ourselves and others (1689) ]The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions… (and) when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another.Religious toleration, the sovereignty of the people, press freedom, the right to rebel, the consent of the governed, no taxation without representation - these themes of the US Revolution were informed by the writings of Locke. The first link points out how Locke's ideas were popularized in the colonies by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon in their Cato’s Letters. American classical liberalism, libertarianism and some types of economically conservative thought still owe a lot to Locke. He wasn't the only philosopher to influence the founding generation, but he is in the first rank.
What is an interesting piece of European history that most non-Europeans don't know about?
Some interesting related facts:Fact 1If it were not for the first world war and the need to change the names of certain aristocratic houses, the marriage of:Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor to Philip Mountbatten would have been the marriage of:Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.Fact 2At the time when Queen Elizabeth was getting married, her uncle Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was in an American POW camp. He did get out - in 1953 he was reported to have seen in a cinema the crowning of his niece, Elizabeth.Fact 3Princess Diana is the first person to ever marry into the house of Windsor without a connection to of the great families.Fact 4Most people, even Europeans would not be able to pin point where Saxe-Coburg or Gotha or Sonderburg or Glücksburgor are/were. Though I accept more may be able to point pin where Schleswig-Holstein is. This is because many more kingdoms in Europe have vanished than survived. European history is very prone to war. So much so that the European Community (EU) actually won the Nobel Prize for Peace as it has presided over the longest peace in Europe for nearly 2,000 years !!Fact 5Many historians study the rise of great nations to try to understand what one should do to have a great nation. I would maintain that you also to study the larger number of kingdoms that ‘vanished’. This is because some did not vanished because they did something wrong and some vanished after going what existing nations did.If one is interested in such vanished kingdoms I would strongly recommendVanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman DaviesThanks for asking
Who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
It was written by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert (Zhill-bear) du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and aided by his friend,Thomas Jefferson, editor. It was based on our Declaration of Independence, with which Lafayette was very familiar; he left France at 19 to fight with Washington, and became an American general. (Washington and Lafayette became like father and son, and Washington was the godfather to Lafayette's son, Geroge Washington Lafayette.) Back in France, Lafayette and Jefferson secretly worked through long evenings at the Hotel de Langeac on the document. Jefferson acted as editor to Lafayette's early drafts of the now famous French constitution. Jefferson's major contribution was the the concluding article, which gave to coming generations the right "to examine and, if necessary, to modify the form of government". The document was originally called "The First European Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens". On July 7th, 1787, Lafayette proposed his "Declaration of the Rights of Man" to the National Assembly, who approved it on August 26th as the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen", but they eroded Lafayette's foundation for liberty into a foundation for license and dictatorship. In 1793, Robespierre and the Jacobins took power and rewrote the Declaration; while it bore Lafayette's title, the new content was claimed by Robespierre . He then suspended it and seized all power for the Jacobins for the duration of the French Revolution. In 1795 financial leaders who had survived Robespierre's massacres seized government powers and wrote a new constitution, changing the name from "Declaration of the Rights of Man" to "Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Citizens". The phrase "men are born with free and equal rights" was missing.
Who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
It was written by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert (Zhill-bear) du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and aided by his friend,Thomas Jefferson, editor. It was based on our Declaration of Independence, with which Lafayette was very familiar; he left France at 19 to fight with Washington, and became an American general. (Washington and Lafayette became like father and son, and Washington was the godfather to Lafayette's son, Geroge Washington Lafayette.) Back in France, Lafayette and Jefferson secretly worked through long evenings at the Hotel de Langeac on the document. Jefferson acted as editor to Lafayette's early drafts of the now famous French constitution. Jefferson's major contribution was the the concluding article, which gave to coming generations the right "to examine and, if necessary, to modify the form of government". The document was originally called "The First European Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens". On July 7th, 1787, Lafayette proposed his "Declaration of the Rights of Man" to the National Assembly, who approved it on August 26th as the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen", but they eroded Lafayette's foundation for liberty into a foundation for license and dictatorship. In 1793, Robespierre and the Jacobins took power and rewrote the Declaration; while it bore Lafayette's title, the new content was claimed by Robespierre . He then suspended it and seized all power for the Jacobins for the duration of the French Revolution. In 1795 financial leaders who had survived Robespierre's massacres seized government powers and wrote a new constitution, changing the name from "Declaration of the Rights of Man" to "Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Citizens". The phrase "men are born with free and equal rights" was missing.
How did the Enlightenment influence Declaration of Independence?
Are you sure you don't mean the US Constitution? Usually the Constitution is mostly connected with the Enlightenment period. It's not that the Enlightenment directly influenced the Constitution, it was the ideas and ways of thinking of the Enlightenment period that influenced it. Most notably, John Locke, an English philosopher; his works were used by Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers and many of what is written in the Constitution came from him. Once again, I guess the Declaration of Independence could still have some of the Enlightenment aspects in it, but the Constitution is most often connected with the Enlightenment period. One of the main philosophies from Locke that is seen again in early American history is the philosophy that everyone has the rights to life, liberty, and property. In the Declaration of Independence however, "property" is replaced with "pursuit of happiness". But the idea of natural rights comes from John Locke Hoped i helped a little.
How did the Enlightenment influence Declaration of Independence?
Are you sure you don't mean the US Constitution? Usually the Constitution is mostly connected with the Enlightenment period. It's not that the Enlightenment directly influenced the Constitution, it was the ideas and ways of thinking of the Enlightenment period that influenced it. Most notably, John Locke, an English philosopher; his works were used by Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers and many of what is written in the Constitution came from him. Once again, I guess the Declaration of Independence could still have some of the Enlightenment aspects in it, but the Constitution is most often connected with the Enlightenment period. One of the main philosophies from Locke that is seen again in early American history is the philosophy that everyone has the rights to life, liberty, and property. In the Declaration of Independence however, "property" is replaced with "pursuit of happiness". But the idea of natural rights comes from John Locke Hoped i helped a little.
If you could witness any event from history, what would it be?
I would go back to the time when my country India got Independence.For India, 15 August is a day of her re-birth, a new start. At the midnight of 15 August 1947, the British rulers handed the country back to its Indian leaders, ending a remarkable struggle that lasted years.In the year 1946, the Labour government, the exchequer of Britain thought of ending their rule over India because of their exhaustion of capital post World War II. The British government announced, during the early 1947, that they intend to transfer power to the Indians by the month of June 1948. This approaching independence could not decrease the Hindu-Muslim violence in Bengal and Punjab. This led to Louis Mountbatten, the then Viceroy of India to prepone the power hand-over date, owing to the fact that the unprepared British army could not cope with the increased violence in the country.In the month of June in 1947, the Sikh and Hindu areas were marked as India, while Muslim area as Pakistan. Millions of people belonging to different religious groups tramped across the newly drawn border to find places to reside.Finally, at midnight of 15 August 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru proclaimed India's independence by reading out his famous speech known as "Tryst with destiny". During this speech, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said "Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we will redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes, but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again.”Kannan Kalidas