The Enlightenment ideas that underpinned the Age of Revolutions

Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Montesquieu argued that legitimate government rested on the consent of the governed, natural rights, and a separation of powers, rather than a monarch's inherited authority. These ideas provided much of the intellectual foundation revolutionaries across the Atlantic world drew on to challenge existing governments.

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